It was the fatuous and insulting “Biden” message above about the American hostage found murdered in Gaza that mandated this post, but I was already thinking about the ongoing insults after seeing a Harris TV ad last night that made my head explode.

I couldn’t find it on YouTube this morning, but Kamala was smirking as she again wafted vague about the “opportunity economy” while giving the political equivalent of singing “Imagine.” She said that “everyone should be able to get a car loan.” How would that work, exactly? It was Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank’s delusion that everyone should be able to get a home mortgage that set up the 2008 economic collapse. She says that she will lower prices and lower taxes, yet Harris cast the deciding vote on trillion-dollar government pork buffets that exploded inflation and made more taxes crucial if the U.S. is going to avoid a National Debt Armageddon. She says she refuses to return to the “politics of the past,” whatever that means—when governments didn’t try to lock up their political opponents, maybe?

There is literally not a single substantive policy statement in the whole ad, not one. Isn’t everyone insulted by ads like that? What kind of dolt would see and hear such deliberately non-substantive boilerplate recycled from “Hope and Change” and say, “Wow! I’m going to vote for her!” Why would anyone vote for a candidate who is so obviously using platitudes to avoid letting them know what she is really planning to do?

Richard Nixon was roundly mocked for his “secret plan” to end the Vietnam war when he ran in 1968, but at least he could argue that it was reasonable not to let an enemy know about his plan before he could begin executing it. The public is not supposed to be a Presidential candidate’s enemy. Harris and Biden, however, or whoever their puppeteers are, obviously are convinced that the public is dominated by gullible fools.

I see that over at Althouse that she started a post about that announcement with Mediaite reporter Isaac Schorr’s apt tweet, “How the f[uck] do you start this tweet with “I’ve worked tirelessly”[?] Answer: You do it if you and your party lie without compunction, hesitation, shame or fear that you will be held accountable for lying.

The “Biden”statement is especially audacious after we have seen all of those photos of Biden sunning himself at the beach. Before that, his administration was ensuring the continued peril of the hostages by not stating, clearly and unequivocally, that it was completely in support of Israel’s efforts to win the war against Hamas, and do so whatever our ally determined would achieve that result most eefctively. Instead, Biden and Harris have been advocating ending the war before Hamas is destroyed, which would mean future terrorist attacks on Israel civilians. This cynical and irresponsible position allowed Hamas to use an American citizen as a bargaining chip to achieve a cease-fire—like the one it broke on October 7.

The Democrats truly believe that the American public will believe anything. And they might be right.