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No Laughing Matter: What Makes Kamala Cackle at Ukraine War News Conference?

Despite the deadly seriousness of the war in Ukraine, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris awkwardly cackles at a broadcast news conference with the President of Poland. Is her inappropriate reaction an uncontrollable tic, or is it something worse? 

No Laughing Matter: Is Kamala Harris' Awkward Cackling an Uncontrollable Tic, or Worse?

Despite the deadly seriousness of the war in Ukraine, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris awkwardly cackles at a broadcast news conference with the President of Poland. Is her inappropriate reaction an uncontrollable tic, or is it something worse?

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64 replies on “No Laughing Matter: What Makes Kamala Cackle at Ukraine War News Conference?”

I think she’s stupid, and knows she’s stupid. The cackle is utterly involuntary, and it comes because/when her brain can’t come up with any appropriate response.

When ever I see her embarrass herself and by extension us (US) I can’t help it, but somehow memories of the ED Sullivan Variety Hour, and his particular format of presentation…. (if you’re old enough remember his voice) ” Ladies and Gentlemen, right here on our stage tonight, we have ‘The Incredible Cackling Kamala’ and for your entertainment she will embarrass and humiliate herself while emboldening the enemies of America.

There are some other perverse incentives at play here. Joe Biden and his handlers know there is a significant opposition to him in his own party. Some on the Squad wing of Marxists would like to see him removed for a true believer. Also most of the sane political cravens on the left know this administration is electoral kryptonite for their party’s power moving forward.
So, why don’t the factions just unite and use the behind closed doors conversation to force a resignation and/or threaten to use the 25th amendment to forcibly remove him?
One word….Kamala!
Biden’s supporters/handlers know that as bad as Biden is, Kamala is worse. So the MORE awkward and terrible she is in public the LONGER Biden stays in the Presidency. It is in his best interest that she be in as many underprepared and socially awkward situations and cause lots of public soundbites at which everyone cringes.
Unfortunately for Kamala she is genuinely terrible at this. A better person would rise to the occasion, prove their preparedness for the office and plot behind the scenes to take power for herself.
But we live in the stupidest of times. Lord have mercy on our souls!
Jeff

That “Russia is a bigger country…” schlock … my reaction was “so basically you’re saying it’s wrong because Russia is bigger and more powerful. So then if Haiti invaded the Dominican Republic that would be perfectly fine, then. Right?”

It’s that Marxist oppressor/oppressed schlock again.

She is a font of vapid schlock.

Well, you’re right. She’s not very smart. And the laughter … well laughter is often a response to internal discomfort with a topic.

Ah, yes, Bill gets to this at about 10:30.

I mean, she is faking the whole thing. It really is like one of those bad SNL comedies where Chris Farley becomes President and every question is totally above his head so his answers are comical.

In turn look at the speeches Putin gives, how he answers questions. Like a real cool and collected based leader. Way more articulate than any leader in the US.

Biden’s a racist, went to a grand wizard of the kkk’s funeral, put forth the 1994 crime bill that targeted black males, he said racist stuff through his campaign. He is putting Harris in these positions show she can fail and to get back at Obama for having to be second fiddle to him for 8yrs.

Listening to our Vice Presidentish speak, it reminds me of another famous and informed persons speech, but to share this, I’ll have to take you back, way back, before Perd Hapley, before Jack Handy….back to the glory days of comedy on LP vinyl.
Dick Martin’s character of a doctor being interviewed by Dan Rowan, and Martin was asked to relate to the audience any motto or beliefs that he had used to make it through med school and become a famous doctor.
Dick Martin’s reply sounded so, so much like our beloved VP. I took the time to transcribe the bit for you here, but you can also click the link below to listen to the comedy bit on YT.
It goes like this:
The motto which has helped me through life and through school goes….
How many times, have we jumped over, and said to ourselves, “Let’s go back”…
These are the new things, and throw out – and we go back!… and say,
“How many…and that’s not enough”, We must feel, in our heart, that the highway of life is paved.
And we must walk… the white line of life, and know that each of us that has ever, and gone back and known, that the newness, we then feel, as you lift up, lift up as You. Know not why, but why know not!
These are the things that we learn, All of us, gather a whole big bunch of us, and throw it against the wall!

Scroll to 3:40 to just hear this classic Kamala speak.
https://youtu.be/Ny3RQcu6Zvk

I think the reason she deferred to President Duda is because she wasn’t paying attention and so didn’t know the question was specifically directed at her. The reporter probably interrupted her thinking of where she was going to have dinner that night.

I think Bill is correct about the laughter buying more time or trivializing the moment. However, I think there is another reason for Harris’ cackling outbursts.

Think of a time when you have just survived a harrowing experience like, losing control of your car, falling down a mountain, or anything where you feel helplessly out of control and may not survive. If somehow, you manage to escape your fate unharmed, you will almost always start laughing uncontrollably because of the relief.

These laughter outbursts from Harris almost always come after a deer in the headlights look. She knows she doesn’t have an answer and she knows she’s going down but somehow, she manages to dodge the question and escape her fate. The laughter is just an expression of her relief from the certain death she has just avoided.

I think she lives in fear 24 hours a day because she knows she’s in way over her head.

Normal people would be in the condition you describe in your last sentence, but I don’t believe she or any of them are normal people. Honestly, their ineptitude, ignorance and awfulness is so egregious, it has to be intentional and very good acting, or they are severely afflicted with Dunning-Krueger effect.

Kacklin’ Kammie lives in fear alright. It’s the fear that any false person has of being exposed. She’s terrified that she has risen to such a height and could at any moment be shown for the fraud she actually knows beyond a doubt she is. She can’t believe she made it this far and just knows something has to happen to take her down. She lives in fear that today will be the day the something she dreads will crop up.

I understand this sort of feeling in a different way. I look around every day and think “Wow, I can’t believe I’m alive, that I lived this long. It’s amazing.”

The difference is that Kacklin’ Kammie got where she is by falsehood and deception and I’m still alive because of competence, luck and the Grace of God. She knows she doesn’t deserve to be where she is and I know that nothing but gratitude is due from me. We’re not the same at all, but both of us are astonished that we’re where we are.

The negative millibar count of the Camel-A’s moral vacuum is FAR greater than that of her intellectual vacuum. (Hmm. Exerting negative atmospheric pressure…. There’s a word for that. Strangely enough, it also describes her entry method into politics.)

I just caught Pelosi’s latest drunken rambling today. I never thought that between Biden*, Pelosi, and Kamala I’d find myself longing for the days of the articulate, well spoken sppeches that Dubya used to give.

The hubris and arrogance of these so-called “leaders”: Kackala and Poopypant’s handlers, to wit, is beyond the pale. There is only one explanation for what has been happening since they’ve been in control of the reins of power: they are intentionally and with malice aforethought making the US look clownish, stupid and foolish to the world, and that’s putting it mildly. They are succeeding in their efforts to destroy the United States.

While I agree that their intent is to destroy the US, I think it is primarily by making us both appear to be, and actually be, weaker.
The clownish, stupid and foolish are just bonus traits that follow Biden and Harris wherever they have been.

Yes, you’ve hit the nail squarely on the head – to make us look and be weaker. China is certainly taking note, and Russia, too.

Me, too. But it almost feels inevitable even though we have been told for decades the China doesn’t have the logistical resources to do it.

So, those of you who get my avatar and nick would guess that I am a fan of Parks and Rec. There was a minor recurring character whom I think represents Kammie well.
Newscaster Perd Hapley.
He spoke in those repetitive, slightly differing sentences that were intended to sound like you are saying something without saying anything.
Go watch some clips of Perd.
This is Kammie.
She is trying to do the slick politician thing of saying lots of important words but without actually committing anything of import down. But failing miserably at it.
It should be funny, but she is (another?) minor stroke away from being POTUS. That makes it scary.

It’s obvious that Kammie is an idiot simply because she has not been able to figure out a useful and correct projection of her public persona. However, the inappropriate detonations of cackle-babble are only one of many symptoms of her personality.

Look at her eyes in a still photo. Those dead, shark eyes without a soul behind them.

Watch her hands. Most people gesticulate to some degree at times while they’re talking. It can either be a nearly imperceptible shrug, lift of a finger or it can be the vigorous motions that Italians are known for but it’s there if you look for it. Kacklin’ Kammie only has about three hand gestures and they’re well practiced. She has the holding gesture (like she’s holding or bracketing something), the circling gesture where one or both hands move in circles and she has the hand-off gesture that looks like she’s passing or handing something off to someone else.

Notice her coquettish “little girl” behavior. We saw this also with Christine Blasey Ford during her testimony against Brett Cavanaugh. This is a blatant attempt at tertiary sexual manipulation. It doesn’t promise sex, it’s sort of like flirting but with a manipulative intent. “I’m just a widdle girl, can I pweez have some ice cream?” sort of thing.

I could explain in depth what all of these things mean but I’ll spare y’all the essay.

The short version is that Kammie is as close to a succubus as a human female can get. She’s used to getting what she wants by sending signals of sexual availability. Please understand that doesn’t mean she hops in bed with anyone at any time, it’s not that. It’s a manipulative technique most often used by damaged women like prostitutes and many actresses.

There is no substance, depth or character* to Kacklin’ Kammie. She projects vacuity because she really is vacuous. She can’t avoid that. The end result is there is nothing useful to the United States of America inside that shell of a woman. She got where she is by selling herself to the highest bidder not by actually being intellectually and morally competent.

(* For contrast consider Amy Coney Barrett, who is a massively competent extremely admirable woman by any measure. Barrett is an amazing, real, genuine human being. Harris is a plastic caricature of a real human being. Watch any video of one, then the other and whether you’re used to looking for “tells” or not you’re going to get the impression that Barrett is genuine and Harris is not.)

Thanks …

Isn’t it astounding the way the Left prefers disingenuousness to actual substance? It’s almost as if they can’t tell the difference, because they can’t. For the Left, appearance is as good as reality and a shallow veneer that agrees with their narrative is a better choice than the real thing. To me the differences are obvious and it blows my mind that they don’t see them but then … For their purposes a thin veneer is exactly as good or better than the real McCoy.

That’s going to come back to bite them in the ass one way or another.

Pilot #1: I’m seeing a massive blip on my radar screen. Do you see it?
Pilot #2 I’ve got a visual on it. It looks like a whirling mass of boomerrangs. The largest one I’ve ever seen! Good grief!! They appear to be on a trajectory that’s heading toward the White House!!!
Pilot #1: What?!! How is that possible?!!
Pilot #2: Stolen elections have consequences?

Not very smart and Waaaaay over her depth. Not a good feeling.
Defines “Feckless”
This is not explainable except by inadequacy. I appreciate your kind soul, Scott, but this lady is inadequate. Didn’t even get to the nomination!!! C’mon Scott!!! LBJ and Churchill were “real men” in “real times.”
This woman is clearly out in Right Field. She doesn’t get real life, much less foreign affairs!!!

Churchill in a bathrobe, a cigar, and probably a glass of single malt? Talking about war and conduct of same? I’ll take that any day over some jagoff who runs to Wilmington, DE every weekend.

As someone who spent @ seven years living in the Wilmington, DE area, it would take a dementia patient to want to leave DC to spend weekends there

BINGO! Lol. I drove through Wilmington a couple of times over the years and if I recall, I never even bothered to stop for gas. That’s how unimpressed I was. #SharterJoe, the boy from Scranton (who isn’t), decided to make his home in the area where he could control things better. Pennsylvanians don’t generally put up with nonsense like Joe.

I think I’ve said this here before, but if Obama had Biden as the dumb VP to make him look good, and Biden* has Harris as the dumb VP to make him look good, who on Earth do we find for a VPto make Harris look good when Sundown Joe’s* dementia catches up with him? Gulag Barbie or one of the other members of The Squad? Maxine Waters? I almost find the VP candidates for Kamala as scary as the prospect of her as President

Yeah but none of that is important. it is time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is everyday.

If I had the time & resources I’d print some fake Hallmark cards with her quotes and slip them onto the display racks.

On LBJ and Churchill and the bathroom diplomacy thing. I’ve always assumed such things were a form of power play.
“I’m so important, and my time is so precious, that I will see you while in the bath, and you are so unimportant and small that you’ll take it.”

Exactly. LBJ was that narcissistic to force his minions into witnessing his bodily functions for the simple reason that he could.

It’s the same thing as a dominant buck deer urinating and defecating to mark his territory.

I loved Winnie and hated LBJ but in both cases they were so powerful that they could get away with what they did. So I agree with your assessment.

I’m so old I remember when we couldn’t elect McCain & Palin because McCain was old & unhealthy and we couldn’t have an idiot like Palin as President. Remember those good old days when Democrats stood for this?

And I’ll be the first to admit that my respect for both McCain & Palin has come down significantly since 2008, but they were still the lesser of two evils

No … I don’t remember. The Democrats have never stood for anything but the furtherance of power to subjugate those they deem to be non-human.

Exactly, it’s the obvious double standards employed by the Left. Like exposing Republican “infidelities” because they know Conservatives don’t like that sort of thing in a public figure while ignoring their own far more grievous sexual transgressions because they don’t have the moral fiber to give a flying rat’s ass about that kind of thing.

Conservatives are looking for people we feel we can trust. If you cheat on your wife and she can’t trust you, you’ll cheat on us and we can’t trust you either.

Leftists are looking for power and the power to cheat is a feature not a bug to them.

It’s a Marine Corps expression that far, far precedes that clip. I’ve never seen the clip (or the movie or whatever you linked to) but the saying is massively familiar to me.

Yeah … It was not intended as commentary. I just thought a little smart ass humor was appropriate as a cheap attempt to lighten the mood of the current political environment.

… and you were correct on both counts, both appropriate and to lighten the mood.

What movie was that animated gif from?

BTW, the root of the expression is a graphic depiction of what happens when you shoot a rat and both front and back halves go flying away from the impact. That’s how the back side of the rat achieved its airborne state. It could have just as well have been “I don’t give a flying rat’s head” but that doesn’t sound as cool. Hence, a “flying rat’s ass” is about the most useless thing in the world, it’s not even any good to the rat anymore.

These amazing scientific facts and much more are all part of a young Jarhead’s education. 🙂

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