It is no secret that the hype surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) is as fake and manufactured as AstroTurf. I'd make a comparison to something else, but I don't think my editors would approve.
Harris has not taken any questions from the press because she is too busy trying to make former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, look like Morgoth and Sauron, respectively (that's one for you fellow Tolkien nerds).
Which brings us to this column by New Yorker columnist Jay Kang, who finally realized what we who don't drink the Democrat Kool-Aid have known all along: The Harris-Walz campaign has literally nothing to run on.
"For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been circling around this question: Does it actually matter if Kamala Harris stands for something?" writes Kang, further noting that there is no real substance to anything the Harris campaign has said since she Ship of Theseus'd the reelection campaign of President Joe Biden (they slapped on some new parts to prevent the most prevalent damage, but it's still the same awful ship).
Yeah, we saw the directive to call Trump and Vance "weird"—which did not last long because of how easily such an accusation could be turned back on the accusers—and the blatant rewriting of Harris's history as prosecutor and border czar.
But other than that, as Kang noted,
She has not explained what, exactly, happened in Washington after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate; or why she has changed her mind on fracking, which she once said should be banned, and has wobbled on Medicare for All, which she once supported; or what she plans to do with Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, who is said to be unpopular among some of Harris’s wealthy donors; or much about how a Harris Administration would handle the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
On her campaign site, you can only find the donate button, a merchandise shop, and biographies for herself and Walz. There is no description of what she will do in office if she wins or what she actually stands for that has not been whitewashed or called out by conservatives.
It is almost like the show "Seinfeld" or its more psychotic spiritual successor "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" in political campaign form: They're about nothing and full of weird and unlikable people, the humor coming from how they react to banal parts of everyday life in the most absurd ways possible.
Except this time, the humor comes from how the mainstream media is doing the legwork of trying to make these characters seem like normal and likable people who will stop Le Bad Orange Man and Le Bad Ohio Man from turning the country into a fascist hellhole where evil white supremacist Nazis exterminate minorities with AR-15s, turn women into broodmares, and require the daily kicking of puppies by law.
But there is one other thing this cringe comedy from the Democratic Party and its mainstream media water carriers has in common with "Seinfeld," and that is George Costanza's immortal words: "It's not a lie if you believe it."
