Kamala’s blagging it

We throw around pejoratives such as ‘Idiot!’ a bit too carelessly, because then when we need to flag up genuinely subpar intelligence, the slag doesn’t land. I sometimes resort to the distinction ‘medically stupid’. As in, ‘Kamala Harris is medically stupid’.

As I write this, next year’s Congressional balance of power is uncertain. What is certain: after the midterms, the same terrifyingly unfit politician will remain one cardiac arrest away from the American presidency.

The press characterises the Vice President’s missteps as ‘gaffes’, but a proclivity for making embarrassing mistakes in public doesn’t capture the scale of the problem. In a Florida interview about the clean-up after Hurricane Ian, Kamala blithered: ‘Giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also have to fight for equity, understanding that not everyone starts out in the same place, and if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities.’

Clearly, just like Covid financial relief, the administration wished to reserve disaster relief for favoured races. In the service of ‘equity’, the flattened homes of evil white people should rot in place. Thus the director of the federal relief agency was obliged to clarify that ‘our programmes support everybody… I commit to you right here that all Floridians are going to be able to get the help that is available to them throughour programmes’.

On their visits to South Korea, we might not expect busy American politicians to bone up on recipes for beef bulgogi bibimbap. Only one minor detail can they not get wrong. Yet speaking on a trip to the demilitarised zone in September, Kamala asserted forcefully: ‘The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea.