Kamala Harris turned up at FEMA headquarters in Washington, DC to thank the staff and get an update on federal efforts to mitigate the damage of Hurricane Helene. While addressing the media, Harris said she plans to travel to areas affected by the storm some time soon and vowed the government would do everything it can to help rebuild.
C-SPAN has posted video of Harris speaking at FEMA along with text compiled from automated closed captioning here. I have borrowed from C-SPAN’s summary of Harris’s appearance in the paragraph above. After speaking to applauding staffers for a few seconds, Harris turned to the press and read scripted remarks from a notebook for eight minutes. She could not be trusted to speak spontaneously. She stuck to the script she had been given.
To make her appearance yesterday Harris interrupted a West Coast campaign swing that took her to fundraisers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. At her Los Angeles fundraiser on Sunday tickets ranged from $250 to $250,000 and donors reportedly dined on duck egg roll, goat cheese honey blueberry ball, Beef Wellington, lobster roll, crab cakes” as Alanis Morissette and Halle Bailey performed.
Harris flew in from Las Vegas yesterday morning to make her photo op at FEMA. Her appearance was token. Everything about it was staged and synthetic.
When Harris departed the scene after her stop at FEMA, she tweeted out the photo below depicting herself deep in thought and hard at work. Some dutiful staffer wrote the text that accompanied the photo.
I was just briefed by @FEMA_Deanne Criswell on the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene. We also discussed our Administration's continued actions to support emergency response and recovery.
I also spoke with @NC_Governor Cooper about the ongoing… pic.twitter.com/nlZPB0h3mO
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 30, 2024
The photo is staged, but someone forgot to prepare the props. Harris is transparent, as they say. Harris is transparently fakin’ it. The paper is blank. The ear plugs are dangling free. The failure of preparation makes it difficult for the audience to suspend disbelief. As the song almost goes, now it’s just another show, don’t forget to cackle when you go.
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