Harris’s Profound Vapidity on Display at Livestream Event With Oprah Winfrey
Asked by a young couple what she would do to lower prices, Harris said one way to do that is to “bring down the cost of everyday necessities including groceries.”
Vice President Kamala Harris received a rock star’s reception upon her arrival at Thursday night’s “Unite for America” livestream campaign event in Michigan. Oprah Winfrey hosted the evening, and attendees included actress Meryl Streep and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
How did it go? Well, not even Oprah appeared enthused. In fact, at times, it looked as if she had zoned out. Author Juanita Broaddrick summed it up best in a post on X: “Oprah is looking at this moron thinking, “What the sh*t is she saying? Unbelievable CRINGE.”
Although we’re all tired of the phrase “word salad,” that is precisely what Harris delivered. Over and over and over again. She rambled, she dodged, and she offered nothing new to voters.
Here are a few of the highlights:
In the following clip, a young couple asks Harris what she would do to lower prices. She tells them one way to do that is to “bring down the cost of everyday necessities including groceries.”
In terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American Dream is, for this generation and so many recently, far more elusive than it’s been, and we need to deal with that.
And there are a number of ways. One is bringing down the cost of everyday necessities including groceries.
The couple remained polite, but appeared disappointed by her failure – or perhaps her inability – to answer their question.
KAMALA: "In terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American Dream is, for this generation & so many recently, far more elusive than it's been, and we need to deal with that."
Huh? pic.twitter.com/bIH2JA8ikN
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2024
Asked by a voter what specific steps she would take to secure the southern border, Harris delivered a three-minute answer. She replied, “So it’s a wonderful and important question. I, you know, my background was as a prosecutor, and I was also the elected attorney general for two terms of the border state. So this is not a theoretical issue for me. This is something I’ve actually worked on. … ”
After droning on about her qualifications and experience in dealing with this issue, she attacked Republicans for preventing passage of the border bill in February. The legislation she referred to would have allowed 4,999 migrants to enter the U.S. every day before triggering a temporary border shutdown — that Biden would have been free to override. It would have allowed more than 1.8 million illegal aliens into the U.S. each year before reaching the thresholds stipulated in the bill.
The bill wasn’t designed to end the crisis. It was introduced so that Democrats could use it at times like this. They could tell voters they offered a solution, but the evil Republicans blocked it.
So, she hammered away at the bill and fentanyl killing Americans before launching an attack on Trump, eliciting applause from the audience.
At the 2:55 minute mark, Oprah interrupted, “So, to answer Justin’s question, now that that bill has gone, it hasn’t passed, will you reintroduce that?
“Absolutely,” Harris replied. “When I am elected president of the United States, I will make sure that bill gets to my desk and I will sign it into law.”
Watch as Kamala is incapable of giving a straight answer; after rambling for 3 minutes, Oprah bails her out. pic.twitter.com/7Dr8zdgJiD
— 𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗭 (@rodriQuez) September 20, 2024
Before concluding, Winfrey asked Harris, “What’s on your heart? To say particularly to those people who are still undecided or maybe indifferent or on the fence still.”
Harris responded:
We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do, that’s why everybody’s here right now. We love our country. We– we take pride in the privilege of being American and this is a moment where [pause] we can and must come together as Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s come together with [pause] the character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people. We are an optimistic people. Americans by character are people who have dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what is possible, we believe in what can be, and we believe in fighting for that.
That’s how– that’s how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions [pause] for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body, freedom to be safe from gun violence, freedom to have access to the ballot box, freedom to be who you are and just be the love, who you love, openly and with pride. Freedom to just be.
Winfrey appeared completely unmoved by Harris’s remarks, responding only quietly, “Hmm.”
But Harris wasn’t finished. She continued, “And that’s who we are; we believe in all that, and so this is a moment where we stand knowing what we are fighting for. We’re not fighting against, it’s what we’re fighting for.”
Oprah just held a telethon for Kamala
G-d spared me and I only caught the tail end
Oprah: “What is on your heart to say to American people?”
Kamala, in the most insincere voice “We love our country” word salad ensues
Oprah “hmm” pic.twitter.com/AQAtcZqpqw
— LogicForAll (@logicForAll_) September 20, 2024
The full livestream can be viewed below.
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Did anyone actually watch this? Or was it just like a WNBA game … nothing but close family and girlfriends in the audience?
I read something about 300,000 online streaming or something … I couldn’t believe that number since it was ridiculously tiny. You can buy 500,000 “live” streamers from some Chinese bot shop for a few dollars.
You obviously know absolutely nothing about the WNBA. This year attendance is over 40 percent higher than last year, with the highest attendance in 26 years, and with numerous games being sold out. Get your head out of your ass.
LOL.
One person – Caitlin Clark, who the WNBA is committed to driving out of the league.
One of the things about becoming an adult is to know when to speak. You have a way to go on this issue.
Brilliant, inspector …
Says the all knowing WNBA expert
It is ALL about Catlin
ALL
And before you tell me that I don’t know anything about the subject,
My daughter played D1 basketball for 4 years, held records and I followed basketball, women’s for years
Only lesbians, parents, and old people attended WNBA games, 99% of all women’s sports
Till Catlin
Catlin, the white girl most of the WNNA is so jealous of they are willing to go
Back to commercial
Planes and 200 people watching the game, which includes TV audience and let the NBA subsidize them
Last week ESPN announced that its WNBA regular season was its most-watched ever for games across ESPN Networks airwaves (including ABC). Games averaged 1.2 million viewers, a massive jump over last year’s games (440,000 viewers).1 day ago.
1.2 million average viewers, but you think that only close family and girlfriends watch the WNBA. Your head is so far up your ass you can see daylight.
“Last week ESPN announced that its WNBA regular season was its most-watched ever for games across ESPN Networks airwaves (including ABC).”
Comparatively speaking, no one cares, lonejustice.
“Your head is so far up your ass you can see daylight.”
That’s pretty ironic, coming from you.
Why the hell are you here again? Are you a WNBA promoter?
The things you focus on are absurd. Taking nitpicking to a fine art.
He’s LI’s very own branch office of Operation Demoralize.
And apparently, he’s up to date on his rent.
Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. It was not just Caitlin Clark, and it is not about race.
A’ja Wilson:
Wilson did things this season that have never been done in the WNBA. (And never been officially done in the NBA, either.)
Most points in a season, most rebounds in a season and most blocked shots in a season. That’s never happened by one player in one year, until now. The Las Vegas star set WNBA records with 1,021 points and 451 rebounds, plus led the league in blocks with 98. Another record for Wilson: points per game with 26.9, breaking Diana Taurasi’s mark of 25.3 that stood since 2006.
Angel Reese: A rebounding machine. Reese would have set the WNBA record for rebounds in a season had she not missed Chicago’s final six games, citing a wrist injury. (She had the record briefly with 446, before Wilson caught her toward the end of the regular season.)
The rebounds-per-game record is hers though: 13.1, which is 10% higher than the previous mark of 11.9 set by Sylvia Fowles in 2018.
Reese’s 26 double-doubles were another rookie record; Tina Charles had 22 (in a 34-game season) in 2010. There were six instances in the WNBA this season of someone grabbing 18 or more rebounds; Reese had five of them.
LOL.
Guess what …
No one cares.
What is your thing with the WNBA?? It seems neurological.
Junior: No. One. Cares.
Go hijack threads somewhere else.
Lol are you for real?
Angel Reese shoots 43% from inside 5 feet, She rebounds her own terrible shots.
WNBA ratings are up due to Caitlin Clark. Period. Only dumbasses like you dispute that.
“Get your head out of your ass.”
Says goober with head continually in ass.
1.4 x a small number…is still a small number.
Indeed. Whenever I read “fastest growing” I mentally substitute “smallest” and I’m almost never wrong.
Heh, it’s hilarious how triggered you are by a simple comparison with the WNBA. I love how you cite percent growth without giving actual numbers. The average attendance at a WNBA game is half that of an NBA game. The highest attendance for WNBA is less than that of the lowest NBA team. And that’s not even getting into the fact that NBA teams play four times as many games per season as WNBA games.
Anyway, trollboy, carry on whining. It’s entertaining.
Kamala can’t be “coached”. Its not possible to “hide” that from voters.
If you were interviewing for open position at law firm, you’d give her 20 minutes to be polite, and not ask her back for 2nd interview.
Law firm? Hell, house cleaning!
Vapidity is no handicap with women voting. The rule is does she seem to mean well. Women vote for that.
The Trump framing that they always use is that Trump doesn’t mean well, not that he’s stupid or incompetent.
“Vapidity is no handicap with women voting. The rule is does she seem to mean well. Women vote for that.”
This is so true. I’ve lost count of how many times Jordan Peterson reminds his listeners that in psych tests, women rank high in “agreeableness,” meaning they can be talked into supporting just about anything.
I remember when Algore got a bump in the polls with women, because he kissed Tipper after his acceptance speech. Rush had a field day with it.
So, first it was the dementia candidate. Now the Dems have offered the moron candidate. What could possibly go wrong?
Sounds like the Dems took to Jason Alexander/George Costanza playbook when making a candidate selection: “Chicken salad, on rye, untoasted… and a cup of tea”
Except that both the tuna and the chicken salad are mentally deficient.
Harris is a pant suit encapsulating a vacuum. Walz is just a closet ChiCom.
It is telling when she can’t even come up with answers to softball “interviews,’ just spouting what she memorized for the “debate.”
Take “optimism, aspirations, dreams and ambitions” away from her, and it would be well appreciated dead air.
Even Oprah looked pained, possibly a bit in horror as she gazed at Harris.
At least she doesn’t preach “audacity.”
She thinks that a technical spec for her earbuds.
She loves to talk this lady. It’s too bad she never actually says anything. I wish she would “unburden herself” of the need to use so many words and just make a point succinctly. Sure Trump loves to talk too, but you understand what he has actually said afterwords and love it or hate it, you know what he he stands and what he plans to do. With her it’s just fluffy rainbows that we are an optimistic people w/ hope and dreams. Aren’t all people that way not just Americans? Sounds kind of xenophobic to me.
The thing that terrifies me is that the idiots in the studio after watching her maniacal laughter could actually vote for her. Her word salad answers were so perplexing that no one including Oprah had a clue what she said. Do these people realize that she is running to be POTUS? Can you imagine her sitting across the table from Putin, Xi, and Ayatollah? Can you see her in the war room deciding whether or not to use a nuclear response? If half of our country truly thinks she can be president then we are in deep trouble.
We are in deep trouble
It reminds me of Obama foreign policy where the whole thing was look folks it’s Obama here , I’m so wonderful I mean just do what I say. I got this ! Apparently the Harris plan is the same : she’s just so positive and black , so hey she’s got this! She’s so inspiring with her being black and female and stuff , yeah us ! That will just fix everything
You’re talking about Oprah’s audience, not people who watch TED talks for fun.
I am going to completely tune out after this woman is elected. I have led a life of hard work, study, good health and athleticism. If I had to listen to this woman on a regular basis I would stop bathing, brushing my teeth and exerting myself in any way. I would drink heavily, become a drug addict and watch vile porn all day. Yes, I am checking out and advise others to do the same. Our country is gone.
I think she would be more afraid of press conferences than Biden.
Not that the press will ever press her on it.
As if we needed any more evidence of rampant media bias, the fawning coverage of that interview is Exhibit 4,788.
I did not watch it. I saw clips and Harris gave up her typical moronic string of nothing answers. I understand only 10k watched.
Harris was in with professors up to the time she graduated college, and then went into law a profession that requires “writing, presenting, and talking to groups” I find her very stupid. I am an Engineer but my roommate and friend from college went into law so I understand what he went through. If she somehow makes it to the Presidency the country will be destroyed.
her fakeness and trickery showing again
Ohhh..I let “slip” that I am against criminals//ILLEGALS ( said she would shoot an intruder)
what a phony and of course Orcha plays along with it
Hey when is Bey showing up???
Kamala under truth serum:
hi,,,I am as confused as the rest of you on how I got here
no one voted for me
I was the biggest loser in the 2020 primaries
I slept with men to move up the rankings
I pretend that I would shoot at an intruder into my home so you’ll think I am against criminals
and on and on the salad tosser goes
How much did she pay the celebs in the crowd to show up, not many are traveling to suburban Detroit on their own dime?
Guess the rest of the word (Oprah interview)
Kamala: You know my background as a pros….
Reminds me of guess the last word
Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though
He will not mind if here I sit
To watch his woods fill up with –
Everyone here says that celebrity endorsements don’t matter, such as when Taylor Swift endorsed Harris.
If that is so, then why did Trump go on Truth Social saying that he “HATES TAYLOR SWIFT!” If celebrity endorsements don’t matter, wouldn’t it be wiser for Trump to ignore Swift? All Trump does is bring attention to Swift’s 284 million followers and her endorsement of Harris. Another unforced error on Trump’s part.
All celebrity endorsements do is make me not like the celebrity if they endorse someone I don’t like. They apparently hate me. They get none of my money.
Isn’t most of the “Taylor trash” under the age one can vote?
A few years ago in Canada, there was a campaign to lower the voting age to EIGHT.
But, but Trump!11!!!
I can’t stand Taylor Swift either, dingus. Is that an unforced error on my part?
How many of “Swift’s 284 million followers” are actual US citizens old enough to vote?
Most of Taylor Swifts songs are about making bad relationship choices. So seems apt she would come out for Harris 😂😂
The author is correct that the immigration bill mentioned would let in 1.8M a year across the border, before special action would be taken. However, the count, by definition, would not include the estimated 1+M “gotaways” a year that do not get counted at all. IMO the standard should be a total of ZERO that do not come in through the “front door”.
Plus, the bill fails to explain exactly how, if we can’t stop the illegals coming in NOW, how we are going to stop them once the traffic meter reaches the right-hand pin each day. If we can do that, why don’t we just set the right-hand pin at zero?