First was the fact that Harris was wearing a mask and spoke without a microphone. If we’ve learned nothing else over the past two years, it’s that wearing a mask (one that is not of the N95 variety) serves no purpose other than to hide one’s face and make it difficult for others to hear when one speaks. And this was undoubtedly what Kamala Harris’ handlers hand in mind.
Harris has been even more of a gaffe machine than her boss Joe Biden lately, so what’s the best way to fix that problem? Do everything you can to prevent people from hearing and seeing her.
A couple of weeks ago she waxed eloquent about the “Passage of time,” as vice-presidential historians are still trying to figure out what the heck she was talking about. We had the incident last month when the VP began laughing while discussing the dire situation of Ukrainian refugees while in Poland. And of course, we had the episode in which she spoke to adults as if they were kindergartners while appearing on a podcast. On Friday, we saw a flashback to those comments:
In case you had difficulty hearing her under that fashionable mask, which is certainly understandable, here’s one of her more astute statements:
“We need to address the reality of the fact that it’s really expensive to live for so many working families. And we refer to that as the ‘cost of living.’”
Oh, really, Madame Vice-President? Is that what we call it? ‘Cost of living,’ you say? Thanks for the education.
It seems clear at this point that Harris’ approach to public speaking is to dumb down her comments to a level that’s appropriate for Sesame Street. We can almost hear Mr. Rogers preface her comments by saying, “Hello boys and girls.” Consider the aforementioned explanation she gave a few weeks ago on a podcast while discussing Ukraine:
“Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.”
Because VP Harris is really smart, you see, and peons like us and those who make up the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, well, we’re not very bright. (continued)
This post originally appeared on The Blue State Conservative.