Go "woke," you'll probably be broke. That should be the mantra. In business and politics, disaster usually awaits. Wokeness on crime leads to lawlessness. Wokeness in school policy allows rapes to occur in the girls' bathroom. Wokeness in politics leads to dysfunction and, overall, unqualified characters rising to the top when they should have been chained to the bottom of the swamp. We're seeing that with the vice president. What's going on with her? What is causing her staff to rush for safety as the S.S. Harris takes on water? It's not hard to figure out—and it's something you already read about during the 2020 Democratic primaries. Like the NFL draft, the Democrats picked high. They took her early in the first round—and she's been a total bust.
Kamala Harris was never going to be a thing. The liberal media tried. They didn't see her abysmal character flaws or lack of accomplishments. All they saw was a black woman. Well, she's now the VP—and it couldn't be more of a train wreck. There's no discipline. No strategy. No messaging. That's how folks described her failed 2020 campaign. There's no substance to Harris. The latest story about her isn't new. We have scores of stories that say the exact same thing about her working environment. It's an absolute toxic waste dump.
Symone Sanders is the latest top aide to flee. The senior adviser said she's leaving, which comes weeks after Harris' communications director announced her departure. Maybe the VP was tired of the leaks and went Frank Costello on her own crew. Probably not, but anything is possible. Harris and Biden's staffers are apparently not in a good place. Harris has failed in every task given to her by the president. Has she been tackling the border crisis? Also, wasn't she QB1 when it came to COVID vaccine advocacy? Again, no messaging, no discipline, and no strategy. It carried over to the one person who is a heartbeat away from having control over the nuclear arsenal.
It's not that Harris is all-around unlikable. She's amazingly awkward. She's laughed more in interviews than she's been to the border. Is it a nervous tick, or is it an appalling display of coastal elitism?
"I'm so great that these criticisms by the little people mean nothing. You people are all blind to how awesome I am. I am the vice president."
That's the ethos, which blinds her to the fact that she sucks. She also appears to be a terrible woman. Leah touched on this yesterday morning, but we need to circle back because there is nothing more poisonous to a political party than having the folks who make up the face of it being exposed as terrible people (via WaPo):
The rumors started circulating in July: Vice President Harris’s staff was wilting in a dysfunctional and frustrated office, burned out just a few months after her historic swearing-in and pondering exit strategies. A few days later, Harris hosted an all-staff party at her official residence, where most of her office bit into hamburgers and posted pictures of smiling, congenial co-workers on Twitter, pixelated counterpoints to the narrative of an office in shambles.
“Let me tell you about these burgers at the VP’s residence!!” chief Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders gushed in a tweet. “The food was good and the people were amazing.” Her official defense against reports of staff unrest was more searing. She called people who lobbed criticism behind nameless quotes “cowards” and stressed that working for a groundbreaking vice president was a difficult job, but not a dehumanizing one. “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day,” she told one outlet. “What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club.’ ”
Five months later, Sanders is leaving the vice president’s office, the highest-profile member of an end-of-year exodus that includes communications chief Ashley Etienne and two other staffers who help shape the vice president’s public image. Sanders told The Washington Post her departure is not due to any unhappiness or dysfunction, but rather because she is ready for a break after three years of the relentless pressure that came with speaking for and advising Biden and Harris while navigating a global pandemic.
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Critics scattered over two decades point to an inconsistent and at times degrading principal who burns through seasoned staff members who have succeeded in other demanding, high-profile positions. People used to putting aside missteps, sacrificing sleep and enduring the occasional tirade from an irate boss say doing so under Harris can be particularly difficult, as she has struggled to make progress on her vice-presidential portfolio or measure up to the potential that has many pegging her as the future of the Democratic Party.
“One of the things we’ve said in our little text groups among each other is what is the common denominator through all this and it’s her,” said Gil Duran, a former Democratic strategist and aide to Harris who quit after five months working for her in 2013. In a recent column, he said she’s repeating “the same old destructive patterns.”
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Staffers who worked for Harris before she was vice president said one consistent problem was that Harris would refuse to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berate employees when she appeared unprepared.
“It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” one former staffer said. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
Yeah, sorry—if Sanders is leaving on her own accord and without any of the drama, then she's a notable exception. I also don't believe her. No one wants to work for this woman. It's chaos. How can you deal with that daily?
Also, no White House can have that as a hallmark characteristic, and you know Harris still has presidential ambitions. The underlying question is can she assemble the staff? Right now, hell no. Harris seems like someone who thinks she can coast into the office of the presidency based on her "people of color" status. American voters are not stupid. With scores of stories showing Harris as lazy, demeaning, and utterly rudderless—they won't back her. Even hard-core Democrats know she sucks. They also know Joe sucks, so the rebuilding effort here for Democrats nationally might be short-lived. Joe probably won't survive a re-election effort that requires him to do multiple events daily in 2024. Harris won't survive one poll on the matter. The Democrats sold the farm to beat Trump, and even then, they got lucky with the COVID pandemic. They're saddled with two terrible candidates. One who poops their pants in front of Pope Francis while the other is completely unelectable.
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— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) December 6, 2021
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— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) December 6, 2021
And after Biden has long passed, who do Democrats have that can win nationally? With every cycle, this party seems more and more out of step with normal people. They think low job creation numbers are good, they cheer about a two-cent drop in gas prices, and they say high inflation is good. Maybe Harris is just the candidate Democrats deserve for their "woke" left adventures. One that is unlikable in the extreme, a perpetual loser. If the state isn't D-plus 7654, Harris loses—everywhere. And again, it doesn't help that she's also a horrible person on top of all this baggage.