Immigrants on "beautiful jet planes," states killing babies, and Kamala is "clearly not well"

Yesterday Politico wrote "the biggest knock against Harris from Trump world in the last 24 hours is that they believe she botched a local TV interview.... Several Trump advisers sent it to us, suggesting Harris was evasive and rambling."

Continued Politico's Playbook, "See for yourself if they have a point."

So I saw for myself. Which you can do if you have 11 minutes. First I was greeted by the Trump War Room's Twitter post saying the Harris interview is its "newest ad." 

Our newest ad just dropped pic.twitter.com/HGYvK5jNYX

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 13, 2024

With high confidence I'll speculate that the soulless munchkins of the War Room have by now heard so much of its eponymous blatherskite's random, unfettered quackery that they can no longer distinguish it from Harris' direct, specific policy answers to the local TV guy's questions. There is no evasiveness, none at all.

I'll further speculate that the diminished-capacity little people now also confuse English spoken coherently — that which Harris speaks in the interview — with Cadet Bone Spurs' verbal meanderings and pointless digressions. Forced repeated subjections to his fickle ineloquence have stewed their brains into mush. 

Should Trump's silliness peddlers want to try their hand at reading some true, honest-to-god rambling, obfuscations and evasions, then here it is, from the nonpartisan Nevadan Independent, founded by Jon Ralston, frequenter of cable news programs.

You can tell the paper really is independent and unbiased from its headline about Trump's mess of a Las Vegas speech on Friday, which featured the speaker's defense of his "debate performance" and his "vows to free up federally owned land."

But even that initial focus and the story's first words about Trump being in town to talk up his "economic policies" could not deter professional journalists from their duty to acknowledge the speech's most pertinent feature right up front: That Trump "spent much of his time repeating falsehoods and bemoaning this week's presidential debate" —  "bemoaning," not "defending." 

"[Trump delivered] his usual rhetoric against illegal immigration — this time complete with internet memes blown up on screens beside and behind him — and once again predict[ed] that a victory for his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, would mark the undoing of America.

"[He] haphazardly weaved political points on immigration and the economy with myriad tangents, such as a back-and-forth with the crowd about the best nickname for President Joe Biden, as well as criticizing his treatment at Tuesday’s debate by the ABC moderators who fact-checked him in real time. He said Harris was 'clearly not well' — accompanied by videos of her laughing — and called her 'a threat to democracy.'"

The Nevadan Independent provided specifics.

"He condemned moderators for not fact-checking his opponent while demanding that moderator and ABC anchor David Muir owed him an apology" ...  He repeated "that some states allow the killing of babies after they are born" ...  "He also repeated a false conspiracy theory that Harris was wearing an earpiece during the debate to feed her answers' ...

"[He showed] an image of tattooed Latino men ... with text saying they would be people’s apartment managers under a Harris administration" ... "[He showed a man with a knife following a woman captioned 'No one is safe with Kamala’s open border' ...

"[He] some undocumented immigrants are being flown into the U.S. on 'beautiful jet planes" ... and he added "that hundreds of millions of people would enter the U.S. illegally if Harris were elected president [my emphasis], and that 'our country will be obliterated.'" (That's a lot of plane tickets.)

Editorial ethnonational note: Trump said last week that he'd deport Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, "back to Venezuela." Remember, Kamala is "clearly not well."

The reporters covering the rally spoke with a couple attendees. One was 65-year-old Kerry Denman, who said, "I think he's gonna do it, but also I think the Democrats got to figure out some way to f--- him out of it."  

Another was a Las Vegas teacher, 55-year-old Raquel Lara. She had heard "stories" about immigrants "hurting children," so the border issue was especially important to her. She was gladdened that Trump will win in a "landslide." But she was gloomy in thinking that should Trump lose, it is going to "be war."

I put it to you. Do you think that after attending a Harris rally, some leaving relate a conspiracy theory to reporters, and then say they're sure that "it's going to be war" if Kamala loses? It seems to me the new and veteran KHivers are "into" what's upbeat, not civil war.

Comments

[Anne J]

Thank you for providing the video of that interview. Honestly, I didn't hear anything that new from her except for a couple of points on gun control policy. Her answers were as clear and concise and detailed as they've always been, the same as her speeches and her debate performance.

She has always been clear about what she stands for and her policy goals since she entered this race, so I am still puzzled as to why the media keeps complaining that they don't know enough about her.

[PM]

Same here, Anne. Except that when the press gets hooked on a theme, it evidently is hard for them to let go. The press often covers its obsession by saying that's what the electorate is crying out for, to know more about her. Yet in the last poll on the subject that I read, nearly 70% of respondents said they knew enough.