I must confess, I have reached the point where the talking point memos going out to the Axis, its allies and useful idiots from the Democratic National Committee are so obvious that they are insulting. We have already been bombarded with the edicts from earlier memos: Trump is a “convicted felon” and a “threat to democracy.” If he’s elected, it will be our “last election” and “the end of American as we know it.” These memos are getting a bit frayed around the edges; the “threat to democracy” line is especially risible coming from a party that just chose a candidate for POTUS using no democratic tools whatsoever—no debates, no primaries, just a pre-rigged convention. This is the most Machiavellian choice of a Presidential candidate since a “smoke-filled room” produced a GOP Presidential candidate named Warren G. Harding—and didn’t that work out well! (To be fair to poor Warren, he was famously likable, which Harris is definitely not. Her staff had a 92% turnover in just three years; she is apparently roundly detested as a boss, almost as much as Donald Trump is.) These people really think Americans are idiots, and, sadly, they may be right. Since Joe Biden was kicked to the curb, I have heard double figures of delegates, Democratic officials and pundit describe the forced anointment of Kamala Harris as the party’s standard bearer in November described as either “exciting” or exhilarating.” This is only slightly more dishonest than the same people—and Harris—describing Joe Biden solving Rubik’s Cube blindfolded until they were shocked—shocked!—to discover that he was unable to maneuver through the complexities of Tic-Tac-Toe. For almost four years, the adjective to be most appropriately applied to Harris has been “embarrassing.”

Here at Ethics Alarms, I gave her a Julie Principle pass for the most part, meaning that I let dozens of absurd and dishonest, not to mention incomprehensible, statements by Harris go by without comment because it was obvious that—well, he’s how I put it before she was even sworn in, when she stole a Martin Luther King anecdote and claimed it was about her:

If, as many seem to assume, Harris is making stuff up to pander to the crowd, why fixate on this episode? We all know, or should, that the woman is shallow, has no core, and that saying whatever she thinks will endear herself to the most people at the moment is her defining characteristic. As Julie sang, “Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly”: Kamala’s gotta make stuff up to pretend she’s something she’s not for the gullible, the naive, the hopeful and the blind. This latest example doesn’t tell us anything we already don’t know.

Even with that call to be merciful, Harris ended up with a hilariously long (and terrifying) EA dossier , especially for a Vice-President. I had a post in March of 2022 musing about whether she was the dumbest Vice-President ever, which Newt Gingrich had claimed. Kamala made my head explode a couple of months later when she said at some public appearance, “We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together…We will work together.” That time I summed up Harris this way:

Her existence as the #2 elected official in the United States is a profound embarrassment to the nation, the public and the democratic system. That such a clueless dolt was chosen purely because of her gender and race insults that gender and those ethnic communities unintentionally complicit in her creation.

That the news media refused to enlighten the public about just how incompetent she is proves its uselessness.

That Harris and her supporters have the astounding cheek to cry “racism” if criticism is aimed her way, when she routinely insults the public by presuming that first-grade level verbal pablum is good enough to feed them because she doesn’t have the capacity to offer anything better, impugns everyone responsible for her presence in place of someone minimally responsible and trustworthy.

Wait, when did she become “exciting” and “exhilarating”? How did I miss that? It must have been like “Charlie,” the now forgotten movie that earned Cliff Robertson an Oscar for playing a—oh, what’s the acceptable term now? To hell with it: in the movie he was referred to as “retarded”—man who suddenly became a genius after taking an experimental drug. Then his IQ starts slipping away—like Biden’s—and by the end of the movie he has the mind of a four-year-old and is playing on a swing.

Non-political junkies hadn’t paid any attention to Harris, who also looked “exciting” and “exhilarating” when the Axis media designated her its favorite to be the Democratic nominee at the head of the 2020 ticket in 2019. Then she started debating, and talking, and showing her smug and obnoxious personality. Her unimpressive background started coming out too, how she rose to prominence in California by being California political boss Willie Brown’s mistress, how she was a law-and-order, anti-woke prosecutor until she ran for Senator, and suddenly morphed into a radical progressive to get elected.

Harris’s candidacy didn’t even make it to 2020 because her polling sank to Titanic levels the more the public listened to her. The Democratic field was hardly a stellar batch (which is how Joe Biden ended up as the nominee), but Harris impressed less than such stars as Andrew Yang and Amy Klobuchar. Tulsi Gabbard mopped the metaphorical floor with Kamala in the pre-New Hampshire primary debate.

What’s “exciting” about Kamala, as my more candid, Trump-Deranged friends and relatives have explained, is that she isn’t in her 80s and senile. They also imply that they would have found a ball-peen hammer, a wad of Turkish taffy, and Fox Terrier equally exciting if the Dark Lords of the Democratic Party had chosen one of those to replace poor Joe.

The real message of the “exciting” and “exhilarating” bombardment is that our incorrigible, anti-democracy news media, enemy of the people that it is, will, once again totally commit itself to shilling for the Democratic nominee, this time returning to the excesses of its shameless promotion of Barack Obama, with a sprinkle of its Hillary Clinton cheer-leading as well. After all, Harris is female as well as sort-of black.

ABC, CBS, and NBC described Harris’s unimpeded route to the Democratic nomination as “dizzying, history-making,” full of “momentum,” attracting a “stunning amount of donations,” with an “emotional and energized team.” CNN’s Van Jones gushed that Harris is a “winner” and a “heartbeat of hope.” The media propaganda was already dusting off its favorite trope from the Obama years and the 2016 campaign, with “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan saying: “I can only imagine that, and a woman at the top of the ticket will take slings and arrows that a male candidate won’t. That’s just the facts and we know it”—criticizing Harris is sexist, you see—while others laid the groundwork for calling any future attacks on Harris racist as well. On MSNBC, the labeling of Harris as a “DEI hire” was called racist; I’ve seen the same complaint on Facebook and elsewhere. The woman was chosen to be Biden’s Vice-president only because she was blackish and female. Biden was explicit about that. It was the definition of DEI logic, and Harris is only getting the opportunity to be a Presidential nominee now because more qualified options for VP—approximately 1,653, 212 of them by my count— were passed over because of their race and gender. Progressives champion DEI, then are insulted when it is correctly identified.

Harris will seem exciting to voters as long as she’s seen as an archetype only, like Obama was for essentially his entire campaign. She’s young! Female! Of color! Not Biden! Not Trump! Presumably the public will also find out that she is not coherent off script, was an ally of Black Lives Matter, defended Jussie Smollett, is an abortion extremist, wants to gut the Second Amendment, takes Greta Thunberg’s side regarding climate change hysteria, likes the open border, and has, via her trademark double-talk, supported the movement to defund police by saying that “resources” would be “better used” in cities by being diverted to “mental health resources, for resources going into public schools, for resources going into job training and job creation.” She’s called for “re-imagining” how we are achieving public safety in America—you know, like they have done in San Francisco. Biden wants to forgive student loans debts: Harris wants to make college tuition free.

But never mind: we can now be sure that despite her Politburo-like ascension to Presidential candidate from DEI Vice-President, the news media will be acting as her full-time PR staff.

Isn’t that exciting?