Kamala Harris Versus Reality

The Debate

Kamala Harris delivered an impressive performance in the debate with Donald Trump last night—with an emphasis on “performance.” The many hours she spent holed up in a Pittsburgh hotel appeared to pay rhetorical dividends. Surprisingly, she was relatively cogent and articulated coherent statements during an over ninety-minute debut as the Democratic Party’s selected candidate. She was, no doubt, the beneficiary of low expectations.

Since ABC is a propaganda arm of the regime, it was no surprise to see the moderators aid and abet its selected candidate while fact-checking and subtly but effectively disparaging the current challenger.

But Harris’s statements were entirely contrived and full of contradictions with the reality, not only of her own record as a vice president and senator, but with the reality of the American experience of the past several years, at least.

Under favorable and biased conditions, Harris managed to smile and smirk—to an audience faced with alarming and exploitative price inflation, needless and expensive wars, record mass illegal immigration, record fentanyl overdoses, escalating chronic disease, collusion between Big Tech and the federal government, the government’s obeisance to Big Pharma, mandatory vaccinations and their imposed damage to health—to an exhausted American electorate that has lost faith in the political and economic establishment and suffered under its war against the people.

The cynicism of the regime was on full display in Harris’s mien and delivery and the doublespeak and gaslighting were astounding in their audacity. As if the current administration has had nothing to do with the crises that Americans face, Harris, straight-faced, promised relief from everything that the administration has visited upon them, all the while blaming Trump for everything that ails the nation.

The policies of the Biden-Harris administration have not only been an unmitigated disaster; they have ritually humiliated and abused American taxpayers.

Americans are not only paying money for unfettered immigration—with taxes extorted to subsidize immigrant travel, lodging, food, cell phones, and healthcare—but also, in far too many cases, with their lives.

Americans are paying for wars that have nothing to do with their own or the nation’s welfare and that benefit no one beyond the military industrial complex. Trump should have lambasted Harris when she boasted of all her neocon endorsements and said that she's just another warmonger, like them.

American taxpayers are paying for a security state that not only surveils but also censors them. Trump should have pointed to the collusion between the federal government and Big Tech under the Biden-Harris regime, which has repeatedly censored us on social media and beyond.

Americans are paying subsidies and higher prices for a “green” economy. When the topic of “climate change” was introduced, Trump should have said that the question is not whether climate change is a “hoax” (although it is), but that the hoax is what they want to impose on us—a complete erasure of our freedoms, the lowering of our standard of living, and a reduction in our population—the real agenda behind climate change catastrophism.

American taxpayers are paying for a federal government that feeds them non-stop propaganda and eliminates contravening facts and explanations for its ongoing travesties. Trump should have pointed to the endless covid lies, as well as the false pretense for the war in Ukraine.

Going forward, Donald Trump must recalibrate and reformulate his message and the articulation of his policy prescriptions—to fend off and counter the mendacities and gall of a candidate willing to misrepresent reality and construct an alternate universe in which she is the heroine.

Trump must be able to better articulate what the state and its corporate accomplices have done to the American people, and what a second Trump term might accomplish to reverse the immense damage that has been inflicted on the Republic.

That is, if it’s not too late.