So. Harris. (Or: Kamala’s Greatest Hits!)

In a move surprising no one, Joe Biden has picked Kamala Harris as his running mate.

The tokenism is obvious, but her history as a prosecutor is a nice “Fuck you!” to the defund the police crowd.

In one sense it mirrors Obama’s pick of Biden himself for VP: A poor rival that was easily bested. But even though Biden only garnered 1% of Iowa caucus votes in 2008, Harris didn’t even make it to the Iowa caucuses, doing so badly on the campaign trail that she dropped out in December.

Let’s stroll through a list of “Kamala Harris Greatest Hits”:

  • Harris believed Biden’s sexual harassment accusers as a candidate in 2019. Willing to stop believing women if it advances you politically? #MeToo!
  • The rats leave her sinking ship of a campaign. “I’ve never seen staff treated so poorly.”
  • Tulsi Gabbard’s epic takedown of Harris:

  • “Kamala 2020 Makes Obama 2008 Look Positively Right Wing.”

    Harris, in contrast, has a legislative agenda that would more than double the size of the federal government. She’s endorsed Medicare for All ($32 trillion over 10 years), the Green New Deal (another $50 trillion to $90 trillion or so), $6,000 in “tax credits” for each working family ($2.8 trillion), and a $78 billion renter-subsidy program. That’s just for starters.

    Obama advocated, half-heartedly to be sure, cutting what before Trump was a sky high corporate income tax rate, recognizing that it put U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage. Harris wants to crank it back up.

    On immigration, Obama promised in his campaign to improve border security. “We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace,” he said.

    Harris plans to use executive orders to grant amnesty to millions of illegals.

  • Harris is the candidate of big tech.

    By the time Harris ran for the Senate, she could count on massive support from Bay Area law firms, real-estate developers, and Hollywood. More important, she appealed, early on, to tech mavens such as Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Sean Parker, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, venture capitalist John Doerr, Steve Jobs’s widow Laurene Powell, and various executives at tech firms such as Airbnb, Google, and Nest, who have collectively poured money into her campaigns. Their investment was not ill-considered. Harris seems a sure bet for the tech leaders. Her husband, attorney Doug Emhoff, was a managing partner with Venable Partners, whose clients include Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, and trade associations opposing strict Internet regulations.

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  • Also:

  • “Crime lab scandal rocked Kamala Harris’s term as San Francisco district attorney.”
  • One reason Harris got where she is: Absolutely fawning social media coverage:

  • “Viewers Starting To Doubt Objectivity Of Reporter With ‘KAMALA 2020’ Face Tattoo.”
  • “Kamala Harris Is A Damn Liar.”
  • “Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Kamala Harris.” That’s from early last year, so you probably know about her being Willie Brown’s mistress by now, but might have forgotten her anti-civil liberties stance on things like linking collected DNA evidence to family members and charging the parents of truant kids.
  • Remember that her sister worked for Hillary in 2016.
  • And a lot of Clinton money backed her early…including George Soros.
  • Google still won’t autocomplete the phrases “Willie Brown mistress” or “Kamala Harris mistress“:

  • Kat weighs in:

  • From last night: Kamala A Movie.

  • The Trump campaign already has a hit ad up:

    (Hat tip: Ann Althouse.)

  • I laughed:

  • Heh:

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