Apparently! Which is a mass insult to everyone since it is, you know, obviously nonsense.
That recent interview with an Australian journalist was just the easiest one for me to find: she has said this over and over. Biden may have babbled like an idiot in his debate with Trump, but it just indicated weariness and lack of stamina that made it mandatory to replace him at the top of the ticket. Otherwise, and Kamala’s fellow DEI beneficiary Karine Jean-Pierre has been claiming one her book tour for a ghost-written hack job nobody in their right mind should want to read, Biden was “sharp as a tack.” Never mind that nobody believes Biden was “sharp as a tack” in 2024 (he has never been sharp as a tack in his life), who could possibly believe that campaigning competently is tougher than leading the nation competently?
I guess this fantasy is comforting to Harris, who was one of the most inept campaigners for the White House ever in a tough field that includes Hillary Clinton, Mike Dukakis, John Kerry, John McCain, Al Gore, George H.W. Bush, Walter Mondale and more. But isn’t it sufficiently ridiculous on its face that nobody is so gullible as to believe it? Being President, if one intends to do the job, requires astounding stamina: look at President Trump. It’s a killing job, for most of our history, literally. If being tired robs a POTUS of the ability to think with more clarity than your average dementia patient (“We beat Medicare…”), how can such an overwhelmed leader be trusted to answer the proverbial “3 AM phone call”?
Harris’s repeated assertion, apparently market tested by one of the same consultants whom she relied on during her disastrous campaign, is “It isn’t what it is” on crack. She really thinks the public is stupid.
Only slightly less insulting is her claim that Trump bamboozled the public with his hyperbolic campaign claims that he would bring prices down “on day one.” No President brings prices down over-all: that’s why a temporary high level of inflation like we had under Biden is so devastating. [ Note: I initially used the term of art “hyper-inflation,” which was misleading.] It raises prices and they mostly stay there. The best any President can do is try to construct policies that raise prices less quickly than they have been rising, and get wages ahead of prices.
Trump’s inflation rate is less than Biden’s in 2024, and much less than Biden’s earlier in his term. Yes, eggs, which everyone was obsessed with, are cheaper, and so is gasoline. But again, who believes that inflation was the centerpiece of Trump’s campaign? He promised to deport illegal immigrants, which Biden-Harris were deliberately letting cross the border by the millions. He promised to end the indoctrination of children into trans-world; he promised to kill DEI. He also promised to weaponize tariffs as a means of revitalizing American business and trade. He’s doing all of that.
The claim that Trump misrepresented what kind of President he would be is dazzlingly weak: his administration has been more consistent with his campaign promises than any POTUS since Lyndon Johnson. That’s 60 years. George W. Bush promised American “humility” and to not try to impose U.S. will on foreign nations. Barack Obama promised to be a racial healer. Joe Biden promised a moderate administration.
Harris either talks gibberish or lies. She is a powerless, useless, embarrassing figure who had her shot, as Alexander Hamilton sings, and wasted it (and that’s a kind way of putting it.) At this point, interviewing her is just cruel.
Ethics Alarms 
“She really thinks the public is stupid.”
She may be right. There are bobbleheads out there who will nod and agree with her. They are either the useful idiots or she is. I’ve been having trouble identifying if she was ever a serious contender for the job or if there was doing to be a man behind the curtain running her administration, too.
“…that’s why hyper- inflation like we had under Biden is so devastating.”
This isn’t really accurate. I wasn’t certain, so I looked up the definition of “hyperinflation”. While many online definitions are admittedly vague, (Merriam-Webster, for example, defines it as “extreme economic inflation with prices rising at a very high rate in a very short time”), other websites are more specific. Investopedia, for example, says “Hyperinflation is when a country’s inflation rate exceeds 50% per month, causing rapid price increases for goods and services.” The 50% per month definition was consistant among any website that had a precise rather than vague definition.
While inflation under Biden was very high, it was nowhere near 50% monthly. A very brief Google search revealed numbers closer to 20% annually. That’s based on the CPI, which I don’t really trust as being accurate, so I wouldn’t be shocked if the true rate of inflation was 30% or more annually, but even that is really, really far from 50% monthly.
Your point, however, that prices went up a lot under Biden and aren’t coming down, stands.
Thanks: I didn’t know that “hyper-inflation” was a term of art. Careless of me. I’ll fix that.
Right! It wasn’t as bad as in Argentina or the Weimar Republic. So we’ve got that going for us.
Funny, but:
With 30% annual inflation, something that costs $100 at the beginning of the year would cost $130 at the end of the year. Admittedly not good.
With 50% monthly inflation, something that cost $100 at the beginning of the year would cost close to $13,000 at the end of the year. Undeniably catastrophic.
What we went through was nothing like what they went through in Argentina or the Weimar Republic.
But we’re not talking about Argentina or the Weimar Republic. We’re talking about the United States.
Umm…, I guess that’s true. We weren’t talking about Argentina or the Weimar Republic. Until, and I don’t know if you remember this because it’s going on 5 hours ago now, but we weren’t talking about Argentina and the Weimar Republic until you brought up them up 3 comments ago.
My point is simply that saying the Biden inflation resulting from (ironically no?) the cynically named Inflation Reduction Act wasn’t as bad as Argentina or The Weimar Republic is cold comfort and little more than a distraction. It’s the “It could be worse” rationalization.
Gollum, er, Yoda, er, The Ragin’ Cagjun, er, James Carville weighs in:
Carville: No Democrat Wants To Hear From Kamala Harris or Anyone That Had To Do With 2024, “Get Out Of The Way” | Video | RealClearPolitics
From what she observed of Biden’s presidency, she’s probably right. A workday from 10am to 2pm, staff to make decisions for him, and insulate him from questions. She had to go out and meet with icky voters and had to answer questions without a script she could read from.
That isn’t (or shouldn’t be) the norm, but it was the norm she experienced. Imagine how shocked she would be if she had to experience it as a candidate without the legacy media support.