All that remains of the Kamala Harris campaign is vibes.
That catalyzed a short debate between me and Mark Cuban, the billionaire minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
A recent clip showed Harris at a hard Left-wing spices shop in Pennsylvania, hugging some crying lady.
I made fun of it because it was ridiculous. Ridiculous. This whole “Mamala, we need a hug from our president” vibe is garbage.
I tweeted, “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.”
If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help https://t.co/Ob0jfZJ6BS
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 9, 2024
Because guess what? I have a family. I have four little kids. They hug me every single day. It’s great. I have a wife. We hug all the time. It’s wonderful. I have parents. We hug too. I have sisters, nieces, and nephews. Lots of hugs all around.
I don’t give a damn about being hugged by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, or Tim Walz. I don’t want any of those people hugging me, just like I don’t want my plumber hugging me.
These are people who are delegated a power to do a job. I don’t need them to come over and hug me. I need them to do their job.
Harris has been vice president of the United States for the last three and a half years, and she’s presided over the complete meltdown of American foreign policy, the cleaning out of the base of our military, the fraying of the social fabric in the United States, and the emptying out of the American middle class.
She’s presided over all of those activities. Why should anyone care if she’s hugging randos at a spice shop in Pennsylvania?
But this is what the Harris campaign has to run on. They have to run on the vibes.
Mark Cuban, the aforementioned Kamala Harris supporter, has a habit of ignoring everything bad that Harris says and pretending it doesn’t exist. He’ll go on national TV and freely acknowledge that her idiotic idea to tax unrealized capital gains would destroy the American economy. And then he’ll say, “Well, it’s never going to happen, so who cares?”
So Cuban tweeted at me, “If you don’t want a presidential candidate capable of hugging, please seek psychological help. Empathy and kindness are skills that are possessed by great leaders in 2024.”
“Capable?” That’s a hell of a straw man, considering my original tweet read: “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help.”
Then, I tweeted to him in return, “I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I’d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation or a**-kissing Iran,” adding, “But I hope she gives you a hug while she taxes your unearned capital gains at 25%.”
I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I’d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation or ass-kissing Iran. https://t.co/VGSsWCTXLy
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 9, 2024
The fact that Cuban believes the signal quality to search for in a politician is empathy and kindness, as opposed to competence, is amazing. If we are a country that has been relegated to needing a hug or seeking spiritual fulfillment from the people who run for president, we are in trouble. It is precisely the opposite that the Founders sought to establish.
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The Founders did not see the government as a thing to hug. The government is not your mommy nor your daddy. No one needs a government mama or a government daddy. No one.
You need a mom and a dad. Then, you need a president very far away who does what is described in Article II of the Constitution of the United States.
Those are the things you need. If you are seeking spiritual solace or emotional fulfillment in a candidate like Harris, the emptiest vessel in the history of the modern American Republic, I reiterate my original tweet and suggest, once again, that psychological help is needed.
That’s true, by the way, on all sides of the aisle.
I don’t want a hug from Donald Trump. I want him to threaten America’s enemies and free up America’s economy. That’s what I want Trump to be doing.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
Look at the propaganda in any fascist state, any communist state. It is all about the “joy” and the “hugs.” Every poster shows the “great leader” hugging children.
I don’t want these people anywhere near my kids. That is not their job.
I just want them to do their job.
And Kamala Harris is not capable of doing that job.
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