With just days left in the Biden Administration, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one more of her characteristically nonsensical word salads when pressed on the wildfire disasters in California. That came when, speaking in the Oval Office, Harris followed up President Joe Biden’s comments with a nonsensical word salad about the fires.
Beginning, Harris started rambling about the multi-generational nature of homes in the area. She started by saying, “As you’ve said, what we have been witnessing is truly mass devastation. And whether we are talking about Sylmar to Palisades to Altadena, it’s important to know that we’re talking about neighborhoods of people.”
Continuing, getting to her point about the houses being filled with multiple generations of residents and being passed on for numerous generations, Harris said, “In many cases, I think about Altadena, these are — these homes have been in these families for generations. And in many of these homes, it is a multi-generational family that lives there.”
She then made a digression and started rambling about people working in the neighborhoods, getting ot the point in the word salad where she was using the words “neighborhood” and “home” repeatedly. She said, “Also understand that in a lot of these neighborhoods, the folks who live there also work in that neighborhood, which means they’ve lost their home and their livelihood.”
Then, returning to the point where she was again rambling about the “multi-generational” nature of the housing, as if she hadn’t already made that same point just moments beforehand. She said, “So the devastation that we are looking at is multi-generational and is going to linger for quite some time.”
Bizarrely, she then randomly interjected that Biden is going to fix things, as are local authorities, a statement detached from her prior rambling on the housing being multi-generational. She said. “And the work under the president’s leadership that we are doing through the federal government to provide aid in every way, to the governor, to the mayor, to local police and fire is critically important.”
Continuing with the discussion of the Biden Administration’s response to the disaster, she then said, “And we are doing it with a sense of urgency. I also would mention that not only are firefighters out there working around the clock, some of whom, sadly, more than a few who have lost their own homes in the fire, but so too with LAPD police officers who are working around the clock and there are at least a dozen who have also lost their own homes to the fire.”
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Further, she said, “So there is a real human story that is associated with the mass devastation that we are seeing and everything that we can do to support, we will do. Also understanding there are moments where we should find optimism in the heroism of people who are taking in strangers, taking in friends, providing shelter to evacuees, people looking out for each other regardless of where they come from or who they voted for. They’re looking out for each other and showing the best of the American spirit in a moment of crisis.”
She also, despite having worked up how bad the fires were given the “multi-generational” housing, told victims to be patient, saying, “It’s critically important that, to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis, that you do.” Watch her here:
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