Kamala Harris Reminds Us Why She Lost
Ah, yes. Showcasing her talent of babbling about nothing.
Ah, yes. Failed Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Kamala Harris, appeared on failed late-night show host Stephen Colbert’s show on Thursday.
A match made in failure.
Colbert is having Harris next as a guest on his show; the host who lost $40 million a year interviewing the candidate who burned through over $1 billion in losing the last election…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 31, 2025
It went as awkwardly as you can imagine, with Harris tossing her usual word salads and repeating her old talking points.
Harris announced she wouldn’t run for California governor. Colbert asked her if she planned to save herself “for a different office,” trying to force her to admit she’ll run for president in 2028.
Well, Harris said no because the system is broken:
No. It’s, it’s more, perhaps basic than that. I am, listen, I am a devout public servant. I have spent my entire career in service of the people, and I thought a lot about running for governor. I love my state. I love California. I’ve served as just elected District Attorney, Attorney General, and Senator.
But to be very candid with you, I, you know, when I was a young, young in my career, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family, and one of the points that I made is, why is it then, when we think we want to improve a system or change it, that we’re always on the outside, on bended knee or trying to break down the door? Shouldn’t we also be inside the system?
And that has been my career and recently I made the decision that I just for now I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken. I think it’s, there’s so much, I mean, there are so many good people who are public servants, who do such good work, teachers and firefighters and police officers and nurses and scientists, scientists, and so it’s not about them, but, you know, I believe, and I always believed, that as fragile as our democracy is our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles.
And I think right now that they’re not as strong as they need to be, and I just don’t want to, for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I want to, I want to travel the country. I want to listen to people. I want to talk with people, and I don’t want it to be transactional, where I’m asking for their vote.
Well, first of all, we live in a republic. Any sane person would know that democracy is awful.
Secondly…what?! A bunch of words to say nothing. How is it broken? What are our fundamental principles to you?
Colbert steered the conversation to her book, which covers her 107-day presidential campaign, because who doesn’t love a book about failure?
Colbert isn’t even hiding his bias anymore. I can’t blame him. You know your show is canceled, so why not go all in:
COLBERT: Well, I gotta say, I gotta say, I want to, I want to, I want to talk about the book. But just to go back to what you just said, is that I have to say, as someone who is very qualified for the presidency, a senator, Attorney General of California, Vice President, United States, and then, and then, I’m very hopeful and dynamic presidential candidate for the 107 days that you had to run, to hear you say that it’s broken, to hear you say that our systems aren’t strong enough, is harrowing…
HARRIS: Well, but it’s also evident, isn’t it?
COLBERT: No, no, it is, it’s harrowing…
HARRIS: But it doesn’t mean we give up. That’s not my point.
COLBERT: Because that’s what I’m hearing, like, you don’t want to be part of the fight.
It’s broken because you lost despite blowing through $1 billion on such a short campaign?
I think not. You lost because you suck, Harris. Even if you had great ideas, you cannot communicate as you have shown during this interview.
Even in a friendly setting, Harris cannot dictate a coherent thought.
Harris continued withthe skill of not being able to communicate with her answer, repeating the word power. I thought to myself, “I’ve heard this before…”
Yeah, it’s basically Harris’s concession speech.
No, oh, absolutely not. I’m always going to be part of the fight. That is not going to, absolutely going to be part of the fight.
But I think that we have to acknowledge and agree that, I mean, look, the power is with the people. That is, that has always been the ideal and, or I say, the strength of our nation, of America, that we believe fundamentally the power is with the people. We the people, and we the people, and I believe right now that it is important to do what I can do from the positions that I have held and what I have seen about the world and our country, to get out there and remind everyone who needs reminding right now of their power.
It is our government. It is our country, and it is important, I think, that in this moment where people have become so deflated and despondent and afraid and afraid that those of us who have the ability, which I do right now, not being in an office where I’m campaigning for that office, to be out there and to talk with folks and remind them of their power and their importance in making a difference.
I mean, I just, I just want to put a fine point on this. You can never let anybody take your power from you. You can never let anybody take your power from you. And that’s what I think for me, that’s what I’d like to remind folks.
I have to give her credit. The confidence she exudes while blabbing about God knows what is fierce.
The full exchange between Kamala Harris and Stephen Colbert on running for office:
"And recently I made the decision that I just for now, I don't want to go back in the system."
Reminder that Kamala Harris, until January 20th, WAS the system. pic.twitter.com/tzvXBltOz5
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The babbling is bad enough but the whiny, nasal sound she makes is even worse. Good grief, woman, don’t go away angry. Just go away.
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We are not yet unburdened from the burden that could have been.
She is proof the system is broken. Broken enough that this midwit DEI hack made it to VP then got jammed down everyone’s throat as a presidential candidate without a vote.
Just goes to show: someone can be smart … and a dimwit at the same time. Kamala and KBJ.
Quod erat demonstrandum,
It’s ironic that just the other day I mentioned to a friend that it was interesting how Kamala Harris had essentially disappeared from public view and nobody seems to miss her. And then she appears on the Colbert show babbling away in her usual incoherent manner. Guess she’s like Beetlejuice, if you say her name three times she appears.
Kamala Harris . . . Kamala Harris . . .
*LUNGES OVER TABLE TO STOP YOU*
Her proper place is in a Motel 6 with a cheap bottle of rye and a self-loathing older man on a bender.
“I have to say, as someone who is very qualified for the presidency”
Who said that Colbert isn’t a comedian? What a sad joke.
Stayed up to watch and was completely entertained. The only time she gave a coherent response was when she showed respect for Biden. Colbert tried best he could to help her, but she is past any help. Guess that’s why the audience was wildly enthusiastic as she spouted her usual gobbledygook. It will be interesting to see where she lands.
As Churchill (I think?) once quiped –
Democracy is the worse possible system of government.
Except for all the others.
One of modern Democracy’s problems is how easy it is to legally bribe politicians – either by skating past campaign donation limits or straight up cunning plans that put $ directly into the politician (or his family’s) pocket.
> Donate in kind – unions and media outlets love this – they can boost a favored politician’s campaign all they want and without $ limits.
> Well-paying made-up or even no-show “jobs” for the family.
Michelle Obama’s hospital gig comes to mind – as well as Biden Jr’s own surprise entry into the energy business.
> “Artist” is a particularly lucrative subset of the above – as the one “job” can funnel $ from multiple sources – theoretically upto the millions from each. Art’s value being entirely subjective – this one rocks as legal bribes go – as Biden Jr could attest – were he not to take the 5th.
> “Author” is a tried and true strategy – from vanity press “books” sold en block to unions or companies who then give them away – to commercial press “books” with huge advances that will probably never sell enuf copies to make back that advance for the publisher.
That last one is the only one I can see a fix for – if I were Trump I’d promote legislation to ban federal office holders (or those who held such office within the past (say) 5 years) from getting any book advances over (say) 100k. If the “book” really is a commercial transaction and not just a way to legally funnel money to (ie bribe) a favored politician they’ll still make money once sales actually justify it.
OC I fully expect politicians to try to use a spouse “author” as a beard to still get the bribe – but at least it’ll be more obvious that it’s corrupt.
Final note – one reason The Elite hate Trump so much is that financially he doesn’t need bribes. They are so used to politicians needing bribes that they can’t believe he doesn’t take them anyway – which is why they try to portray legit straight-up financial transactions (staying in an upmarket hotel) as a “bribe”.
OC needing to be a Millionaire or Billionaire to successfully (bribe free) run for high office is also imho not A Good Thing – but it is what it is.
dna is not her friend
Not sure if she should use the phrase “on bended knee”
Might be the most honest thing she ever said
In acting, a kiss is felt to be not real (“not felt”) but just scripted. The same thing is not felt about sexual intercourse. It’s felt to be real, scripted or not.
The only genuine things Kamala’s ever done have been sexual favors, owing to that convention.
Your first paragraph sounds like something Kamala would come out with. Was Not Was. I can’t even parse it to make any sense at all.
Colbert and Kamaltoe would make a great couple. Dumb and dumber. It’s a pity Dougie is still around,
You’ll also note that Kamaltoe has never held a real job. Not even at McD’s, I thinking working in the private sector should be a prerequisite for running for office.
A fan of Robert Heinlein.
In his “Starship Troopers” universe a prerequisite to run for office, hold a govt job, or even vote was either a term of military service or volunteer service. They became Citizens, everyone else was just Taxpayers.
Between that and his “Farnham’s Freehold” Heinlein – sometime called the Dean of Science Fiction – one of the “Big Three” classic SciFi authors – winner of FOUR Hugo Awards – would NEVER win a modern Hugo Award.
I love starship troopers and i agree with the basic concept. No service – no vote and I say this as someone who never served, I just augmented to say no job – no office. I also mean a real job in a real company. Law firms don’t count. Investment houses don’t count. The number of politicians who have never worked for a living is large and getting larger. Biden, Harris, Obama all never held real jobs, I want someone to represent me who had to hire people, put together a budget and stick to it, and meet production goals. This is why I always prefer governors for President as senators never do anything more than flap their gums, find the nearest tv camera, go to cocktail parties, and dream of being president.
Likewise a fan of RAH. I read every one of his novels, juvies or not, when I was young. The box with them in it is in storage but there’s always my Kindle with Starship Troopers and Farnham’s Freehold along with several others. Good reading for the weekend.
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In other words, she asked around and the Democrat donors told her “no.”
“What are our fundamental principles to you?”
We know that the answer to that question is “Nothing that was fundamental just 10 or 20 years ago.”
I noted just yesterday (while listening to Seattle’s mayor speaking) that everyone on the Left is using the buzz phrase “who we are,” as in “This is who we are,” and “That is not who we are.” (The latter often within the context of speaking out against Trump’s agenda.) To quote Tonto, “What to you mean ‘we,’ kemosabe?” “We” would disagree with Harris about our “fundamental principles.” It’s funny that they think principles established just a few years ago can somehow be “fundamental” to a country that’s been around for nearly 250 years. Has it been without principles until only recently?
“everyone on the Left is using the buzz phrase “who we are,” as in “This is who we are,” and “That is not who we are.”
It’s the new “my truth.”
Sorry, didn’t read the transcript and could only make it through the first minute of the interview.
God, she is boring and she speaks about absolutely nothing of importance.
And that nasally whine is so damn aggravating…
I think she is, as the saying goes, between a rock and a hard place. She can either run for governor or she can tread water and go after the presidency in 2028. Decisions, decisions….
If she runs for governor she will probably lose… even with the potential Dem challengers that the press has lined up for her. The loss in the CA governor contest would leave her “clear” to run for president, but with the albatross of the loss (possibly a drubbing) hanging around her neck. Or she forgets the governor contest to avoid the loss, but then drifts along, out of the public eye, until 2028. “Out of sight, out of mind” holds true in politics.
It appears she has taken the latter choice. Will the response of the big money people, those who reject her today, feel differently in 2028?? A lot can happen in 6 years. Could she deny Vance a 2d term? Stay tuned, film at 11.
It’s amazing that Komrade Kamala has decided to concentrate on the length of time for her campaign to blame for her loss. She seems to forget what she actually did (and I am really disappointed that almost no public figure has bothered mentioning it, either – as it was such a huge deal.
She should have named the book:
We even had the MSM turds starting to claim that Komrade Kamala’s “Basement Campaign” was … GENIUS!! with some going so far as to say that she shouldn’t come out, at all, but stay hidden all the way to election day. She almost did.
So, for her to concentrate on the “107 Days”, now is too funny.
As to her word salad Colbert interview, I thought it was hysterical. Colbert was particularly funny, especially when he asked her, “… are you saving yourself for a different orifice?” I didn’t think he had any humor in him, but I was wrong. And her meandering about how the system is broken but she doesn’t want to go back in it, sounding as if she hadn’t even considered the question before that moment … precious.
I could tell at one point she was … “this close” to saying “I was raised in a middle class family” but held herself back.
The better title for her book could have been, “How to Lose a Presidential Election in 300 pages or less.”
Honestly, should a prosecution and conviction of Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Wray, Clinton, and the rest of that cabal one day succeed, they should be placed in solitary confinement and forced to read KH’s new book.
And listen to the audio of it over and over and over again.
If I promise to miss her, do you suppose she’ll finally go away and get lost?
Kamala (Que mala) Harris:
I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken.
Mary Chastain/LI
Q.Secondly…what?! A bunch of words to say nothing. How is it broken?
A. The Democrat candidate (Kamala) didn’t get elected.
Kamala + Colbert = double canceled
“A bunch of words to say nothing. How is it broken?”
Well, since she hasn’t done a Hillary and booked it to another state, she’d have to run for something in California. Knowing that, to ask that question is to answer it.
“the host who lost $40 million a year interviewing the candidate who burned through over $1 billion in losing the last election”
I’m sorry I missed their segment on “weird new budgeting lifehacks.” It must’ve been epic.
I think we all just ned to sit back and admit to ourselves that in blowing the election, Kamala was just playing to her strengths, as always.
A “devout public servant” = a Dhimmi-crat career apparatchik who has studiously avoided working in the private sector, out of stupidity, laziness and a lack of talent/ambition.
Harris exists to test party loyalty. It is obvious to anyone with a brain that she is a complete dolt, but unlike the dems who are required to defend her, we can just be honest and call her out. Just assume anyone who supports her has either 0 integrity, or o intelligence, of none of both.
But even 0 didn’t support her.
At some point you start to wonder if English was her second language since bullshit was her first.
Crone-harlot-dunce, Kamaluh, can now audition for the privilege of being the Dhimmi-crat who will be crushed by J.D. Vance in the 2028 presidential election.
Kamaluh’s alleged “moment of crisis” that she alluded to is what rational and sane Americans (i.e. conservatives) properly characterize as “American renewal and a restoration of sanity.”
Harris is such and idiot that she doesn’t see this as a failure. At least not her failure.