It didn’t take long. I read in the New York Times that Kamala Harris is the candidate of “joy.” She hasn’t even been at the forefront for 72 hours and already the syrup has started to drip. Joy? As bad-tempered as she is, she can hardly be the candidate of joy. And, on the other hand, joy does not solve inflation, nor the border crisis.  We knew that nothing would be the same after the attack on Trump. What we didn’t know is that it would all happen so fast. In less than 10 days, the former president has gone from saving his life by a few inches to redoubling his chances of returning to the White House, amid a wave of popular support, as the world watches as the Democratic Party commits assisted suicide in real time. And in less than 10 days, Trump has gone from facing a zombie to having to face a ghost.  Kamala Harris is a gaseous matter, invisible, still unknown to science. Harris is nothingness, a kind of quantum vacuum, the specter of the annihilation of a particle, an error of terrestrial gravity. Of her political abilities we know only one, her ambition. Her intellectual abilities are unaccounted for. And her leadership ability is comparable to that of a driftwood log. Perhaps her only political talent, at this moment, is having been born a woman, but that is a condition that more than 50 percent of American citizens can also claim. And, following Democrat logic, even the other 50 percent could claim it providing they are willing to undergo surgery. The Left has succeeded in making being a woman mean nothing special. So there’s little reason to be impressed with Kamala; in fact, we should remind them of it every time the press announces the possibility that, for the first time, a woman will be president of the United States. It’s micromachismo or whatever the neo-language woke calls it. Biden would not have resigned without the attack or, rather, without Trump’s rise in popularity after the attack. From that point on, the internal pressures became unbearable and the Democrats had to face their own delusion: they have been insisting for months that Biden is better than ever, that he could even take part in the damn Olympics, and that he is the right man to save the nation from itself.  Neither is it certain that the president has decided to leave of his own free will. I have serious doubts that he has done anything of his own free will in the past year. There is only one thing more sectarian than a progressive taking on a conservative, and that is a progressive taking on another progressive. Historically the Left has been unrivaled in internal purges. I’m prepared to bet that Biden has been secretly purged by the same people who have been celebrating him publicly up until a few hours ago. I am not saddened by the cruelty of his fate, frankly, because he should never have run, but I am amused to discover that, once again, for Democrats, politics is the art of betrayal.  Kamala Harris represents everything that is wrong with the contemporary Left. Biden was a horrible candidate, but if there was one thing we couldn’t accuse him of, it was having bad ideas; to have bad ideas you have to have at least some ideas. It was enough for Biden to figure out in what order to put his shoes on, which, for a few months now, is just about where his presidential responsibilities begin and end. If the Left wishes, we can continue to pretend we haven’t noticed.  Harris is different. Harris is the American version of the radicalized postmodern Left present in the rest of the West. Harris is a frightening mix of wokeism, sentimental politics, socialism, and sectarianism. It is like making Amanda Gorman defense secretary; and I hope I am not giving Harris any ideas. She is capable of signing her on as vice president, without even bothering to find out if anyone has looked into the harmful effects of her poetry on her victims’ glucose levels.  In 20 years of journalism, I have learned that in journalism you should never exaggerate the importance of something that is happening in real time, but above all you should never minimize it. I doubt I’m wrong: I’m pretty sure that in a few years we’ll be talking about what has just happened as the 10 days that changed the world. Trump is saved. Biden is gone. And Harris, well, who cares about Harris? READ MORE: The Democrats’ Panic Reveals Vance’s Strength Advice To Trump: Fire The Secret Service The post Ten Days That Changed the World? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

When Kamala Harris was first introduced on the national stage, she was frequently heralded as a former prosecutor. After she was selected for the ticket in 2020, Democrats and the media quickly worked to rebrand the role of prosecutor due to the fact that the profession was being vilified amid the George Floyd killing in the spring of 2020. Despite the New Yorker’s feeble attempt to rebrand her former profession, others were quick to criticize. Now, Vice President Harris’ former job is infrequently — if at all — mentioned with her bio.  And it isn’t any surprise. The popularity of prosecution has plummeted in recent years. Scholars may speculate as to underlying cause, but the effect in liberal politics is clear — a long, celebrated career of seeking incarceration is no longer politically popular on the left.  But now that President Joe Biden has announced his intention to drop out of the 2024 campaign, and thrust his support behind Harris, questions about Harris’ early career and close ties to prosecution may return to the forefront of America’s collective psyche.  Harris graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1986. Harris immediately matriculated to the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she graduated in 1989. A little known or discussed fact is that Harris failed the bar exam the first time she took it in 1989. She passed the bar in 1990 (and now is apparently an inactive member of the California bar).  Beginning in 1990, Harris served as a “deputy district attorney” in Alameda County, California, where she remained for four years. She left to fill an appointment from California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, her boyfriend at the time, to serve on the California Medical Assistance Commission, making $72,000 annually ($148,033 in today’s dollars).  Harris took a brief leave of absence from the District Attorney’s Office to pursue the aforementioned Board Service before returning to prosecution, but this time in a leadership role. In 1998, the San Francisco District Attorney appointed Harris as the head of the “career criminal division.” According to an article written at the time, the division handled some of the office’s “most serious” offenses, including “third strike” offenders. To jog your memory, “three strike” laws, supported by President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, would impose a mandatory life sentence for a person’s third felony conviction. In the intervening 30 years, “three strike” laws have been largely viewed as being a primary contributor to America’s incarceration problem. More relevantly, however, Stanford Law School has led the charge to systematically overturn and repeal any sentence as a result of a “third strike.” Their effort has been deemed a “voice for the forsaken” and a “proven path to clearing out overcrowded prisons.” It was also supported by the Obama White House. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a prosecutor who believed a person should receive a life sentence for any third felony conviction.  In 2004, Harris challenged her former boss for the position of San Francisco district attorney. In her victory speech, Harris vowed that criminals would be “met with the most severe consequences” and promised to work to “build a better relationship” with police.  Harris served as the district attorney of San Francisco until 2011, at which point she was sworn in as the attorney general of California. Her statewide record is too lengthy to cover in detail here, and changed entirely to suit the California electorate. She quickly went from actually caring about reducing violent crime to devoting significant time and resources to truancy, shifting with the political winds. While politicians and people should certainly be provided license to change their mind, Harris has completed a full transformation from the start of her career. Virtually everything she publicly supported she has subsequently decried. She has gone from leading the unit that sentenced people to life in prison for a third felony conviction (which would have included drugs such as crack cocaine), to advocating for “ending mass incarceration.” It’s one thing to reverse track on a single tweet sent out a decade ago. It’s another to completely work to undo decades of public service.  Maggie Cleary Kilgore is a visiting fellow at Independent Women’s Law Center (iwlc.org) and Deputy Commonwealth Attorney in Culpeper County, Virginia. She is former Special Counsel to Attorney General Jason Miyares and former Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security under the Youngkin administration. She is also a former federal prosecutor. The post Harris Has Virtually Disavowed Her Career as a Prosecutor appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins: The Beijing Declaration was signed at the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among the factions held in China’s capital from July 21-23. In further proof that we are living in the end times prophesied in your King James Bible, this amazing thing just happened. A meeting was held […]

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Barack Obama has yet to endorse Kamala Harris for president. Although most Democrats rallied behind Harris for the party’s nomination, Obama didn’t fall in line to signal his support. According to the New York Post, Obama hasn’t endorsed Harris because he doesn’t think she can defeat Donald Trump in the presidential election. The outlet cited a Biden family source. “Obama’s very upset because he knows she can’t win,” the source told the New York Post. “Obama knows she’s just incompetent — the border czar who never visited the border, saying that all migrants should have health insurance. She cannot navigate the landmines that are ahead of her,” the source reportedly said. Obama doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can beat Trump, which is why he hasn’t endorsed her: Sources https://t.co/9sg9riOc4V pic.twitter.com/FA6jCQkJgq — New York Post (@nypost) July 24, 2024 From the New York Post: The turning point for Biden, 81, came after his disastrous performance against Trump in a televised debate in Atlanta last month which, The Post first revealed, was part of an “elaborate set-up” to remove him from the race. But the source doesn’t have high hopes for a TV debate between Trump and Harris. When Biden was still in the race, a second debate was scheduled for September 10. “Wait until the debate… She can’t debate. She’s going to put her foot in her mouth about Israel, Palestine, Ukraine. She’s going to say something really stupid,” the source said. “Obama knew this was going to happen, Joe knew this was going to happen. Now she is going to have to answer real questions.” Trump told reporters he would like to debate Harris multiple times. Fox News invited Trump and Harris to a debate on September 17th. Donald Trump And Kamala Harris Invited To Fox News Debate, Here’s When JUST IN: The New York Post reports that Barack Obama hasn’t endorsed Kamala Harris because he 'doesn’t think she can beat Donald Trump' pic.twitter.com/lDk3aYrZ0r — The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) July 24, 2024 Although Obama hasn't endorsed Harris, other reports suggested Obama's inner circle believes he still supports her campaign. Per Fox News: Though Obama is again remaining coy with his endorsement in the 2024 cycle, powerful advisers and allies in his orbit have joined Harris' campaign. Harris tapped Obama’s former attorney general Eric Holder to lead the vetting process of Harris’ potential running mates, while the campaign also reportedly contacted longtime Obama adviser David Plouffe for a leadership position on the team. Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, who worked as Obama’s 2012 deputy campaign manager and Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign chair, was announced as Harris’ campaign manager. Ahead of Biden dropping out of the race on Sunday afternoon, Obama allies notably helped lead the charge in calling for Biden to exit the race in favor of a candidate they believed was more suitable to take on Trump. Obama's former chief campaign strategist David Axelrod declared earlier this month that Biden is "not winning this race." Actor George Clooney called on Biden to drop out of the race in a bombshell op-ed that was published just weeks after the Hollywood star co-hosted Biden, alongside Obama, for a ritzy campaign event in Los Angeles. Clooney has long had a personal friendship with Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, including vacationing with the first couple in previous years. Another ally in Obama's orbit, Jon Favreau, who served as former director of speech writing for Obama, also called on Biden to drop out of the race this month, saying he attended the fundraiser in L.A. with Clooney and Obama and witnessed firsthand Biden's state of mental acuity. Favreau, alongside former Obama advisers Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor — known collectively as the "Obama Bros" when they worked in the White House — also dedicated the majority of a podcast episode of "Pod Save America" this month to trashing Biden. The "Obama Bros" and other former advisers in Obama’s orbit have since taken to social media to celebrate Harris’ run. "What the @KamalaHarris campaign team has pulled of since Sunday is truly incredible. No campaign in history has ever undergone such a shift with no notice. The way they been able to capture the wave of enthusiasm is so impressive. True professionals," former Obama Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer said. What the @KamalaHarris campaign team has pulled of since Sunday is truly incredible. No campaign in history has ever undergone such a shift with no notice. The way they been able to capture the wave of enthusiasm is so impressive. True professionals. — Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 24, 2024 "This was excellent, and she's crushing the rest of the speech too," Favreau said in response to a speech from Harris. This was excellent, and she's crushing the rest of the speech too https://t.co/JzHiAxnGzB — Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) July 22, 2024

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