‘Dumb and Dumber’ is one of my favorite movies.
I don’t usually like slapstick comedy films but it’s so relentlessly stupid that it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious.
What passes for a plot involves two imbecilic best friends – played by Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey – who crisscross America to return a suitcase full of cash to a woman they both fall in love with.
But really, it’s just an excuse for endless gags about how cerebrally challenged they are.
You’d be surprised at how half-witted and stupid they are the longer you watch the film.
It is regrettable to report that Kamala Harris, Vice President of President Joe Biden, and Lloyd Christmas are quickly becoming political equivalents of Harry Dunne and Harry Dunne.
Barely a day goes by when one of them isn’t doing something worthy of abject mockery – from Biden falling asleep at the COP26 climate change summit, to Harris appearing in a World Space Day video with hired child actors who she pretended were wide-eyed real kids enthralled by her exultation of space exploration.
(The video was made by a firm named ‘Sinking Ship Entertainment’ – a metaphor for the Biden administration if ever there was one.)
And it’s not just me that thinks this.
Barely a day goes by when either Biden or Harris are doing something worthy of abject mockery (Above: Biden falling asleep at the COP26 climate change summit)
Harris had hired children actors portray Harris in the World Space Day video. They were pretending she was a real child, enthralled with her enthusiasm for space exploration.
The video above was made by a firm named ‘Sinking Ship Entertainment’ – a metaphor for the Biden administration if ever there was one
The shocking USA Today-Suffolk University Poll reveals that Biden’s approval rating is extremely low. Just 38% of Americans approve of his presidency while 59% disagree.
The President, however, is enjoying more approval than his deputy.
Surprisingly, just 3 of 10 Americans (27.8%), approve of Kamala Harris’ job. 51.2% disagree.
This means she is the vice president most disliked at this stage of an administration, for half a hundred years.
In spite of the anti-Trump fury that followed, her predecessor Mike Pence had a higher approval rating than 40%.
Even Dick Cheney – the worst VP ever in American history – did better than 30% despite leading the US to two controversial wars and shooting his friend while quail hunting.
Harris, the most disliked vice president at this stage in an administration is Harris. This has happened for more than 50 years. (Left: Mike Pence was above 40% approval after the same period in office) (Right: Cheney, the most loathed VP in history, polled better than Harris at this point in the Bush administration
It was not meant to look like that.
Biden elected Harris his No. 2 Because she was a historical candidate (the first African American woman and Asian to run for VP) that would excite and ignite the progressive arm.
And the unspoken plan was that he would serve a first time, sort out all the mess after the chaos of Trump, and then, in his 80s, hand the torch to this far younger, legal eagle deputy so she could become America’s first woman president.
This seems as unlikely as my becoming the first British President.
But the only real surprise is that anyone’s really surprised.
Harris’s own presidential campaign in 2019 was so bad that it didn’t even last into election year.
Her blames were subliminal voter racism, sexism and lack of financial resources. However, it was lackluster charisma and good policies that turned away voters.
If her skin color was an issue, then why did Barack Obama get two terms?
As VP, her performance was equally unimpressive and lackluster.
Harris was put in charge of combatting America’s immigration issues but has been M.I.A. The Southern border was plunged into an even more dangerous situation.
She boasted of being the last one in the room when Biden made his decision to leave Afghanistan but wasn’t quite so keen to co-own the decision when America’s sudden withdrawal turned into a deadly fiasco.
She’s also been dubbed the ‘Invisible Woman’ – declining to hold a single press conference as VP and not doing a major interview for over 150 days since her disastrous encounter with NBC’s Lester Holt in which she said she’d been down to the border, only for Holt to remind her that she hadn’t.
‘And I haven’t been to Europe!’ she replied, excruciatingly.
Little wonder that only 23% of Americans approve of the way the border situation’s being handled.
The most damning of many awful numbers in this new poll is that when asked to name the one thing Americans most want President Biden to do in the next year, the biggest answer by far (20%) was ‘resign/retire/quit.’
It got twice as much response as fixing an economy.
President Biden’s presidency is not yet a year old but is already in deep trouble thanks to surging inflation, chaotic supply chains, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the ongoing covid crisis, and an insanely woke agenda that’s led to parents who dare to complain about their kids being taught critical race theory being dubbed domestic terrorists.
The US public showed their disgust in last week’s election results like the Virginia governor race where an established Democrat was unceremoniously unseated by a new-boy Republican who seized on the PC education nonsense to win a shock victory.
Since Biden and his party show no sign of having learned lessons from Virginia or the polls, there will be plenty more where that came from in next year’s midterms, when I strongly suspect the Democrats will get a shellacking and lose the House.
But the Democrats have got an even bigger nightmare to worry about and that’s the 2024 Election.
It is regrettable to report that Kamala Harris, Vice President of President Joe Biden, and Lloyd Christmas are quickly becoming political equivalents to Harry Dunne and Harry Dunne.
As things stand, Biden hasn’t got a prayer of re-election unless he starts to show the kind of dynamic leadership that’s so far proved woefully beyond him.
His optimistic rhetoric about the future of the United States after the Trump years was a giddy success has proved to be nothing but nonsense.
How credible can a president already diagnosed with cognitive problems and who is almost 82 years old, be?
No wonder the USA Today/Suffolk University poll, two thirds of Americans say they don’t want him running again including 28% of Democrats and many of the independents who helped elect him in 2020.
However, any succession plan that includes Kamala Harris would be a complete non-starter.
As Joe Concha put it on Fox News: ‘If you’re the Democratic Party how could you possibly put her up as the nominee right now when not even three in 10 Americans approve of the job she’s doing and it’s impossible to find her?’
If the Democrats are to keep the White House in 2024 they must find someone to win the election for them. They need to begin looking right away.
That doesn’t look like being Joe Biden, and it definitely won’t be Kamala Harris.
Both could potentially remain in office for at least 2024, if a new crop of Democrat nominees tries to win the nomination. However, Kamala is also eligible to run.
The Constitution doesn’t allow Biden to fire Harris personally, but he and the Democrat leadership can engineer the removal of a vice-president who has proven to be completely out of her depth and a perilous threat to the Party’s electoral chances.
Then he could appoint an unpopular moderate VP to use the platform. This would not only increase the chances of defeating the GOP candidate but also add excitement to the already exhausted administration.
It is a big question whether the Democratic Party is capable of managing its inner sexual and racial politics in order to find such a happy candidate.
But if Biden doesn’t, and the pair of them stubbornly insist on either fighting the 2024 presidential race together, or having Harris as the presidential nominee, then we may see a repeat of the scene from Dumb and Dumber where Lloyd Christmas opens a champagne bottle at a fundraising event to save endangered Snowy Owls, only for the flying cork to kill one of two Snowy Owls in a display cage – horrifying guests, and further endangering the species.
‘Boy,’ he observes, ‘this party really died.’