Posted by
Rude One
Last week, I said on Twitter that I wanted Sen. Kamala Harris to be
Joe Biden's pick for a running mate because I wanted her out there for
the next couple of months prosecuting Donald Trump's administration in
the public space. Several responses were along the lines of "No, fuck
you, she should be attorney general, dick, so that my favorite Democrat
can be VP!"
There are a few reasons I thought Harris-as-AG was a
dumb idea. First, no Attorney General has ever gone on to become
president. (Robert Kennedy may have, but, well, we'll never know.) And
Harris obviously is eyeing the presidency down the road. More
importantly, though, is that, as Biden's vice presidential nominee, she
will have an incredibly high profile, and in a media environment that
too often ignores Democrats and especially Democratic women, she can go
out every day and make Donald Trump and Mike Pence cry and it will have
to be covered. That will shake some shit up.
I hear every
complaint about Harris, and, in another time, it might be enough for me
to get upset about it and question Biden's judgment or get angry at the
marginalization of the true left of the Democratic Party or whatever,
but, sorry, no, fuck that.
"Kamala is a cop," you say? Well, she's not
and never has been, and I've got a stack of bodies that'll be topping
200,000 that makes me just not give a shit about the questionable
aspects of Harris's
record
as Attorney General of California.
Did she ignore a pandemic and cause
the economy to crash and refuse to do anything to help while people
died, starved, and lost their homes? No? Then who the fuck cares. (And
she's been very strong on the environment, violence against women,
financial exploitation of the poor, and more, along with being
anti-death penalty, so let's just say there's more than enough to
mitigate other shit. She's way more progressive than the
more-liberal-than-thou gatekeepers say.)
Besides, there are a
shit-ton of truly liberal Democratic candidates running at all levels,
from school board on up to U.S. Senate. Get behind them and get them
elected. That's what will move the whole party to the left. Look at
someone like Cameron Webb, running for Congress in Virginia, and who has
a chance to pick up a GOP seat. You can use that amazing lefty energy
to have a long-term effect on the Democratic Party.
In her
speech today
at the event where Biden introduced her as his running mate, Harris
went right at Trump, laying the failure of this nation to combat the
coronavirus right at his wobbly feet. "The case against Mike Pence and
Donald Trump is open and shut," she offered before listing the utter
failures of this failed group of failures failing us every day, finally
coming back to the response to COVID-19. "When other countries are
following the science, Trump pushed miracle cures he saw on Fox News."
What was doubly awesome about that remark is that the speech was being
broadcast on Fox "news," who finally got a small taste of what it's like
when Trump screeches, "Fake news!" at CNN.
In perhaps the most
cutting moment, Harris said that Trump "inherited the longest economic
expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and then, like
everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground." That
is some hardcore, go-for-the-jugular shit right there. It attacks the
entire mythos of Donald Trump as a Successful Businessman when he is a
rank loser who couldn't have done a goddamn thing without his daddy's
money and still fucked it all up. And she did it with a calm, rational
voice, not like the ranting hysterics of the man she's slicing and
dicing.
You can tell that Trump is shitting himself over Harris
because she is everything that he has feared his entire life: a strong
Black woman straight from Central Casting who won't take shit and who
will get high ratings every time she kicks him in his voluminous ass.
He's gotta desperately play all the tropes, from the racist "angry"
Black person to the woman who is "nasty" and "mean," which means not
subservient to men like Trump. Shit, they're even
rebooting
the Willie Horton ads from 1988. What the hell else is he gonna do but
break out the hits like this is still the 1980's and the suburbs are
still a generic white paradise and aren't filled with middle-class
people of all races who support things like Black Lives Matter and think
Trump is an obscenity?
The Trump campaign is caught on Harris between trying to rile up the left with the aforementioned issues and
calling her a "
radical"
who "has abandoned her own morals in an attempt to appease the
socialist mob seeking to destroy America. Biden and Harris' disastrous
proposals of de-funding the police, increased taxes, job-killing
policies, and opening our borders are just a few of the many ways they
would destroy America." All you can say to Trump is "Motherfucker, you
already destroyed America. You burned this shit down. Why would we
re-elect you so you can piss on the ashes?"
Today, Biden and
Harris offered more sympathy for families and loved ones of the
Americans who have died of coronavirus than Trump has offered since the
pandemic hit this country. They offered more hope in the form of
realistically looking at the crises that Trump has created than in all
the bullshit, pointless, delusional happy talk from the
resident and
his administration. And Harris and Biden and their staffs look more like
America than the KKK meeting that shows up at every Trump event.
Harris
can prosecute the case against Trump and Pence starting now, and that's
perfect. She can hurt them over and over. She can do it with
confidence and charisma and cold, hard facts. We need that.
We need them
wounded again and again. We need Americans to feel ashamed to vote for
these GOP dick-scabs. That's why we need Harris now, not later as
attorney general. When she's elected, Harris can lead a commission that
exposes all their crimes. In fact, having her as vice president would
help assure that Biden doesn't let it all slide just to move forward, as
he and Obama did with the Bush administration's crimes. Harris the
prosecutor knows that you can't let that shit go unpunished.
Yeah,
the choice of Harris was entirely expected and not remotely surprising,
and, goddamn, it felt good to have something go the way it's supposed
to go. That can be really fucking energizing and get you ready for
what's next. It makes you feel like "Yeah, maybe we can do this."
