by Jeff Childers
If you’ve managed to avoid all the gushing media reports about last night’s buzzword-loaded but calorically empty speeches at the DNC in Chicago, you missed nothing. A series of far-left speakers pandered to the party’s partisan activists, including the vegetative Big Guy, there to get his 10%. The speakers studiously avoided every single issue regular people care about: the economy, the border, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, and barely even mentioned Gaza. Maskless, they repeatedly retconned the pandemic, bizarrely claiming to have fought lockdowns and mandates.
Corporate media slathered the Convention with delirious wall-to-wall coverage. Politico ran possibly the most honest story, headlined “Kamala Harris has rallied Democrats. But now comes the hard part.” In contrast to most other corporate media reports, Politico observed we’ve been here before. Kamala’s “2020 presidential primary run similarly started on a high note,” the article admitted, “before her campaign devolved into a slog.”
Politico reminded readers of Kamala’s 2020 problems, like her see-sawing message, a “lack of crisp deliveries” of her policy positions, and her “uneven performances on the stump.”
Inside the Convention, Kamala Harris was advertised as the next best idea the Democrats ever had. They got the idea to coup the party’s elected nominee after a night of scheming and hard drinking with some Ukrainian oligarchs, fresh off the Nordstream bombing. (Around 2am, the conspirators had first voted to replace Biden with an animatronic donkey, but some more votes unexpectedly came in while Nancy was in the bathroom, so Kamala won by a nose.)
The real race starts in three days, as soon as the Convention ends. Politico pointed out that Kamala still must bridge the Israel-Palestine divide (protestors outside the Democratic border wall called her “Killer Kamala”). She must face reporters, currently relegated to a tent outside the Convention hall, who are still waiting to ask her some questions. And her recently unveiled economic plan landed flatter than a French crepe.
When will the convention explain how expecting the very people who caused all these problems can or will SOLVE all these problems?