The occasional, often ill-considered thoughts of a Roman Catholic permanent deacon who is ever grateful to God for his existence. Despite the strangeness we encounter in this life, all the suffering we witness and endure, being is good, so good I am sometimes unable to contain my joy. Deo gratias!


Although I am an ordained deacon of the Catholic Church, the opinions expressed in this blog are my personal opinions. In offering these personal opinions I am not acting as a representative of the Church or any Church organization.

Thursday, October 14, 2021

An Emmy for Kamala

As I suppose everyone knows by now, Vice President Harris recently agreed to take on an entirely new responsibility. How she can possibly handle this added burden, given the number of critical assignments the president has already tossed onto her plate, is anyone’s guess. 

After all, she’s already responsible for managing the borders of the United States and judging by recent and rather embarrassing reports, it would seem she has a lot of work to do. As “border czar” her actions might seem to be rather low-key, but the administration can’t stop praising her accomplishments. Accepting the validity of this praise, we must admit that without her behind the scenes diplomacy the minor problems at the border would likely be far worse. Thank God the DHS Secretary has promised America that “the. border is closed”— otherwise the VP’s work would be even more demanding.

But that’s not all. President Biden has also tasked her with ensuring the protection of voting rights, another difficult challenge given her party’s focus on ensuring exactly the opposite. Once again, she must work feverishly in the shadows to seem to meet the expectations of voters while not discouraging the fraudulent activities of the party’s operatives. I suspect she has found a way to meet this challenge and will succeed, at least in the minds of those few Democrats who actually believe her to be electable.

Oh, there’s more. The president has also given this obvious superwoman responsibility for broadband Internet. In this duty she must oversee the federal government’s expenditure of over a billion dollars to provide an expansion of hi-speed Internet to Native American tribal lands as well as to Alaskan and Hawaiian communities. But that’s just a tiny piece of her overall goal of spending $100 billion to ensure the provision of reliable, hi-speed broadband Internet service to all Americans. Judging by her previous experience as a Democrat senator, she will surely have little problem spending the money.

Her latest assignment? She is now the nation’s chief space cadet, having accepted the honor of chairing the National Space Council. The NSC is responsible for developing the nation’s space exploration policies and overseeing the development of space-related national security strategies. 

Just a few days ago we were given a beautiful example of her enthusiastic approach to this new spacey responsibility. The Vice President released a video of her meeting with a number of school-age children. Her goal? Presumably to motivate all those newly woke kids to chuck their dreams to major in gender studies, comic art, or cannabis cultivation and choose instead to study something that might actually help them land a real job. But then we found out that the children in the video were not “real kids” but paid child actors who had auditioned for the job. Of course, that Kamala and her staff would do this is perfectly understandable. Like her boss, opening yourself to the unpredictable comments and questions of regular folks is problematic. The following is an example of what could happen:


Far better to hire a bunch of actors (or answer questions only from mainstream media) so everyone involved follows a pre-approved script. Watch the video and see if our VP didn’t earn herself an Emmy. Here’s a link to her video. Prepare to cringe.







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