Kamala Harris says, in an echo of Joe Biden, that nothing will fundamentally change when it comes to U.S. funding and arming of Israel in its war against Gaza should she be elected president. But hey, at least the genocide will be carried out with an abundance of “joy.”
Joy-nicide!
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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You don’t need to be Kissinger to see how the election is playing out. Harris and Trump are still neck-and-neck. She isn’t winning this. It’s still a coin toss despite Trump’s wildly erratic debate performance. Even if she does, somehow, stick the landing, she’s facing a Congress that will block every single thing the democrats try to put forward (except those things dictated by their lobbyist masters). I don’t think there will a lot of joy on Election Night.
This is one of the areas in which Ted is correct.
Do you think the GOP retains the House? I don’t. I see the GOP taking the Senate, probably. The Senate is a more moderate than the booger eaters comprising the House Republicans. Harris will have an uphill climb, but not impossible.
My experience has been that the democrats, even when they have superior numbers on an issue, hitch up their skirts and run like cowards. In the vernacular of the schoolyard, they flinch. Harris lacks the necessary depth of experience to manipulate the older heads. She was a senator for a single term. Her “accomplishments” are minimal. Here’s an NPR clip that should win an award for how obsequious it was.
For example? “She was one of the main sponsors of a bill to make lynching a federal crime.” Am I the only one who heard of the Civil Rights Act of 1968? Title 1? It allows for federal prosecution of anyone who “willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with … any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin.” So Harris comes along and “sponsors” a bill that’s basically just commonsense bookkeeping, the lowest of the lowest-hanging fruit, and that’s a wild success?
The idea that Harris is going to go toe-to-toe and fight the good fight? Nothing in her displayed character convinces me that her positions have “evolved” to that point. She’s a loyal party op. She does what she’s told to and expects to get the best seats at the restaurant, the best steaks, the best champagne, and that someone else will pick up the bill. I suspect that even if she had a majority in the House and the Senate, all we, the lumpen people, would get is a lot of excuses and weird laughter.