I Can See Russia

 Fourteen years ago, in time for the 2008 Presidential election, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, ran with U.S. Senator John McCain in hopes to defeat Barack Obama.

 

Throughout the year-long campaign, countless unfunny comedians, television sitcoms, daytime talk shows, and late night hosts, relentlessly badgered The Governor citing her “clearly obvious lack of intelligence.”

 

Filled with giggles and gaffaws, Ms. Palin’s numerous appearances were quickly and everlastingly becoming fodder for cheap laughs at the eventual expense of our country. 

 

One comedienne even donned look-alike eyeglasses in an effort to mock her for the whole world to witness.  This tart took a geographical fact and turned it into a comedy skit berating Ms. Palin along with anyone who had attended high school.

 

That half-baked comedienne/actress used an interview answer Ms. Palin gave to a talk show host about Alaska’s proximity to Russia.  Palin said, in effect, that you can see Russia from Alaska.  The subsequent joke offered the poor comedienne/actress an opportunity to malign The Governor as a dolt who believed Alaska was within eye shot of Russia.

 

As it happened, the joke was on that lame comedienne; Alaska is within eye shot of Russia – particularly at the Bering Strait.  In fact, an Alaskan swimmer named Lynne Cox swam from Alaska to Russia across that same body of water in August 1987.

 

For the record, Russia is a mere few miles away from Alaska, and so the United States.

 

Unfortunately, comedy writers are apparently not geographers or map-owners who could have simply looked this information up.  Still, this fact was largely ignored as the joke expanded until after the election, and beyond.

 

Sarah Palin still seeing Russia from Alaska

But the irony is just beginning to come into focus.  Our nation was co-opted by nefarious forces under the duly elected Obama largely because of this wildly inane premise of the vice-presidential nominee being “stupid,” and clearly incapable of taking command in the event of an untimely catastrophe befalling a President McCain.

 

“She’d be one heartbeat away from the nuclear football,” was the running mantra in an attempt to further fabricate untruths about Palin and her running mate John McCain.

 

History should be used as a barometer to gauge the future based upon the past.

 

Obama’s reign of terror was chock full o’ lies, racist policies, division, and poverty, all of which was ignored when voters offered him another four-year term at further destroying our great nation.

 

Along came an oddity, in that this new candidate was not a lawyer or a politician.  He was a successful businessman named Donald John Trump.

 

Trump eked out a win over Democratic hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton in an election decided by the Electoral College, bringing rage for a perceived theft of office.  Of course it wasn’t; it was an exercise as to why the Founding Fathers created this system out of whole cloth over 250-years ago.

 

Following another contested presidential election in 2020, President Trump “lost” his office to a career politician, Joseph Robinette Biden, and his Vice President, Kamala Harris.

 

This match-made-in-Heaven appeared to be too good to be true.  Alas, it was.

 

Biden was elected by what appears to be questionable means, all-the-while remaining hidden in his Delaware basement throughout the campaign.

 

Harris, on the other hand, bounced around from one talk show to another letting the proverbial cat-out-of-the-bag along the way.  Harris was, and continues to be, a media magnet.  That’s a person who avidly seeks the attention of anything involving a microphone and/or a television camera.

 

Touting herself as a “woman-of-color,” Harris filled the bill for what her boss promised his VP needed in the way of qualifications: A woman, and black.  Apparently affirmative action at work.

 

Not unlike her boss, Harris is a lawyer, too.  The good news is she once was a prosecutor jailing nefarious drug users for various marijuana offenses.  The bad news is that she admitted to using this illegal vegetative substance herself while incarcerating others for the same offense.

 

Not to worry, the media, and television hosts, emcees, and skit programs conveniently ignored these faux pas’.

 

It wasn’t long before she needed to show her mettle to the public, though.  Immediately upon removing the curtain hiding this mental giant the true Kamala Harris appeared.  Among her first words were chuckles and hearty laughs.

 

That blank stare in her eyes led one to believe she was lost for words, and this media appearance would be harder than previous ones – perhaps even requiring a serious response to a question or comment.

 

And so it went for several months.  It is said a public speaking coach was hired to assist her with thinking ahead, not laughing at inappropriate times, and being less combative during interviews.

 

It has been a year-and-a-half since this dynamic duo of Biden – Harris assumed their respective offices, and time for a re-evaluation.

 

It seems that in an effort to confirm her status as a buffoon-of-color, and a woman (maybe – depending on how biologist Ketanji Brown Jackson defines a woman,) Harris is cementing her ardent efforts as just plain stupid.

 

In a recent CBS interview, Harris was asked if former Democratic presidents and members of Congress should have codified Roe v. Wade “over the past five decades.”

 

“I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed what we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled.  Certain issues are just settled,” Harris said.

 

Yep.  Clearly affirmative action at work.

 

While I’m pretty certain no one associated with The White House or this current administration reads this blog site, I’m offering free advice to any and all: select candidates for jobs based on knowledge, skills, and abilities; and when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

 

Suddenly Sarah Palin can see Russia from Alaska.  Oh, my.