You heard it. I heard it. The whole world heard it. Even CNN reported it.
PJM’s Matt Margolis reported on it here. At the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington on Saturday, Kamala Harris said: “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance.”
Now, Ukraine is not actually in NATO, and so standing firmly with the Ukrainian people would not actually be an act in defense of the NATO alliance, and of all people, the person pretending to be vice president of the United States should know that.
So over at WhiteHouse.gov, the ever-helpful anonymous wonks who record every august word and deed of the socialists, clowns, puppets, freaks, and saboteurs responsible for this period of American misrule knew that they had to do something to prevent the American people from realizing just how oblivious and out of touch our putative vice president really is.
Voilá! Now it has her saying: “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people [and] in defense of the NATO Alliance.”
Sure, the “and” is in brackets, so the White House gremlins are tacitly admitting that she didn’t really say it. But the correction itself reduces an obvious revelation that the ostensible vice president is woefully ignorant of the basic things every public official should know to a simple slip of the tongue. She meant to say “and” and didn’t; that’s all, MAGA rubes! Haven’t you ever had something come out the wrong way?
Maybe that’s all it was. But the alleged vice president hasn’t exactly impressed the world of late with her knowledge and intellectual acumen. On Friday, Harris was asked about historic inflation and unprecedented gas prices in the United States and, before answering, first looked to President Klaus Iohannis of Romania, as if he might have a better answer about conditions in the country of which she is supposed to be vice president.
Then: “In terms of, uh, the discussions that the president Iohannis and I had, uh, they ranged in subject, including the issue of the Black Sea, and I’ll let him explain in more detail as he would like. Uh, but, we are again, fully aware and apprised, because we are in constant communication with the president, with his administration here, about the concerns that they have about the entire region, and frankly, the vulnerability. All you have to do is look at the map.”
Did you miss the part where Harris addressed inflation and skyrocketing gas prices? So did we all. She simply changed the subject rather than dealing with the unpleasantness. Statesmanlike!