I suppose I should admit it. I miss Kamala Harris. Life in this country has not been the same without her.
We’ve missed her musings on yellow buses, all that talk about coconut trees, and of course her meditations on the nature of time.
Since Kamala has gone silent I often find myself going back to her greatest hits, to remind myself for instance that time, when you think about it, has great significance.
Most of all I have missed the great, seemingly wine-fueled, stand-up moments, when she talks about something that she seems to find almost endlessly amusing.
For reasons that no one else can either explain or share.
So I am relieved to discover that Kamala is back. Bigly.
On Thursday the former vice president did a 30-second promo video in which she gets asked the question that is on the lips of all Americans.
“What’s going on with Kamala HQ?”
This is asked by an offstage voice while Kamala grins like a maniac.
“Well I’m so glad you asked” our hero replies. “I have good news. So Kamala HQ is turning into Headquarters.”
If the significance of this has passed you by then let me explain that Kamala HQ is an X-address which has been sadly dormant since Kamala failed to win over any voters in the November 2024 election.
‘Um, I’m really excited’
In case anyone thinks I’m exaggerating here, let me just remind you that Kamala not only failed to increase Joe Biden’s share of the vote, she did worse than him among groups — like young women voters — who Kamala had expected to have in the bag.
So the newly renamed “Headquarters” is apparently “where you can go online to get basically the latest of what’s going on.”
I’m not entirely sure what market the former vice president is speaking to here.
After all, there are quite a lot of places online and off where we can already get basically the latest of what’s going on.
There are newspapers and news sites, for instance.
Even blogs, social media and more.
Did Madam Vice President have her phone and other devices taken away from her since her 2024 trouncing and so remains unaware of this whole subculture we call “news”?
Finally, we get a little clarity from our star.
Still grinning from ear to ear and gesticulating in that unforgettable way that suggests she’s down with the kids, she informs us that at “Headquarters” we will also be able “to meet and revisit with some of our great courageous leaders. Be they elected leaders, community leaders, civic leaders, faith leaders, young leaders. Um, I’m really excited about it, so stay engaged and I’ll see you out there.”
I’m not sure why we need to “revisit” any of these anonymous people.
Did we visit them a lot before and have forgotten to drop by for a while? And who are these exciting community, faith and civic leaders who have been silent since Kamala HQ stopped pumping out content?
Behind the times
If you´re still not clear what is going on, well at least Kamala and her team have given us a couple of clues. One is that they have decided to adopt the X-label of “@headquarters_67.”
This is a reference to an online meme briefly popular with some youths some while ago.
The meme — which like a lot of online memes is too complicated and unimportant to go into here — signals a desire to be down with the kids.
Unfortunately the meme was already long dead and buried even before Kamala and her social media geniuses decided to dig it up and batter its corpse one final time.
Even CNN has admitted that this attempt to look cool is almost the epitome of what the kids might call “cringe.”
Kamala couldn’t have looked more out of sync if she’d started talking about Pepe the Frog.
But the other clue as to what Kamala is hoping to do is the revelation that this new, hip, down-with-the-kids site is intended to be “the new Gen Z led progressive content hub.”
In partnership with the “progressive” nonprofit organization “People for the American Way” we are told that this partnership aims to “mobilize pro-justice, pro-fairness, pro-democracy young people against far-right extremism.”
Perhaps this is a good time to remind people of Murray’s law. Which is that you should never use a term in politics the opposite of which would only be said by a maniac.
So can anyone at HQ or People for the American Way please find me the young people in America who declare themselves to be “anti-justice, anti-fairness and anti-democracy”?
Perhaps they are out there somewhere, along with other right-wing bogeymen of the radical left’s imagination.
But I haven’t yet met an American who declares their politics to be any of these things.
“Yes, my own politics is based on opposition to justice and fairness,” said no one in America ever.
Pining for Gen Z
But it doesn’t matter, because in the radical left’s desperation to find its way back from electoral disaster, they need to muster every American Gen Z person they can to begin the fight against “far-right extremism.”
But just remember how that term has been abused by those people over recent years.
From being a term that was useful and necessary on occasion, the far-left has decided that almost everything is far-right if it is something they don’t agree with.
Police? Far-right. ICE? Fascist far-right. President Trump? Literally Hitler.
And how did that game work out for them?
Remember that in 2024 Kamala Harris underperformed Joe Biden’s 2020 race by almost 7 million votes. And Biden 2020 was the election when the Democrat nominee hardly left his basement.
Perhaps Kamala and her “progressive” allies really do believe that Gen Z and others can be won over by ancient memes, “revisiting young leaders” and having a site “where you can go online to get basically the latest of what’s going on.” I wouldn’t be so sure.
But at least there’s still the good news for us Kamala watchers. She’s back.
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