Kamala Harris is the gift that just keeps giving for a curmudgeonly opinion writer. Sure, I’ve written about her probably a few times more than she deserves, in the last few weeks, but… she just keeps on delivering the comedy gold. Whether it’s her oddball, inappropriate cackling, bizarre Pepe Le Pew intonations in France, or her mesmerisingly weird kids’ science videos, Harris just keeps on bringing the car-crash entertainment.
But, if Harris is an unintentional laugh-a-minute, that’s nothing compared to her fangirls in the mummy-blogosphere, who just can’t for the life of them understand why everyone hates their intersectional idol so much.
Kamala Harris wasn’t just a woman. She was an impressive, effervescent, accomplished woman — the perfect antidote to the Trump years.
Biden was deemed a safe pair of hands after the chaos of a former reality TV star posing as a president. But he was a bit boring, a bit old.
But Kamala? She was going to turn America around.
In fact, Biden has turned out to be what everyone who wasn’t blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome knew he is: a doddering octogenarian in such a terminal state of cognitive decline he probably thinks his name is actually Brandon. In a stunning achievement even for a Democrat, Biden has taken less than a year to plunge America from an economic boom to the sort of stagflation death-spiral last seen in the 1970s. He’s also humiliated his country in a way it hasn’t been since Vietnam.
In a masterpiece of understatement, Mamamia concludes that the Biden-Harris administration has not been quite the saviour America hoped for.
You could put it like that. And Chancellor Hitler was not quite the honourable man Neville Chamberlain thought he was. Whodathunkit?
As Timothy Lynch, a professor in American Politics at The University of Melbourne tells Mamamia […] they thought simply by not being Donald Trump, they would enjoy huge room for manoeuvre, and they didn’t. They’ve got razor-thin majorities in Congress. They struggle to convince their own party, let alone Republicans,” Lynch adds.
Public approval has been as dismal as their political achievements. But as ABC Planet America’s Chas Licciardello tells Mamamia, that at least, isn’t all that unusual.
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Except that it is. Of course, most administrations suffer a drop in popularity after the post-election honeymoon. But, compared to nearly every post-war president Biden and Harris never had a honeymoon at all: Americans disliked them from the get-go. Sure, Trump started with poor ratings, too — but his went up. Biden’s have gone into a death-spiral.
The only comfort he might take is that, hey, at least he’s not hated as much as Harris. Harris has the dubious distinction of the lowest approval ratings of any vice president on record.
It’s not as if anyone ever liked her — apart from a gaggle of elite, out-of-touch mummy bloggers. Harris was the worst performer in the Democrat primaries. When you’re liked even less than Michael Bloomberg, Beto O’Rourke and John Hickenlooper… well, you really are the stinkiest poop at the bottom of the punch bowl.
The only idiots who can’t sniff it out are identity politics-obsessed mummy bloggers in their harbourside mansions.
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