Even Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t help but laugh at her own tendency for confusing statements during a speech on Tuesday following the election.
Speaking at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, Harris addressed a crowd of young people, urging them to “stay in the fight” despite her loss in November.
“I ask you to remember that this struggle is not new. It goes back nearly 250 years to Lexington and Concord,” she told the audience. “Generation after generation, it has been driven by those who love our country, cherish its ideals and refuse to sit passive while our ideals are under assault. … This fight now, it continues with you. You are its heirs.”
Harris, smiling knowingly, added, “I ask you to remember the context in which you exist.” She paused, nodded at the crowd, and then quipped, “Yeah, I did that. Uh huh,” before laughing along with her audience.
The vice president’s remarks were part of her visit to Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, where she addressed supporters on Tuesday.
Her comment seemed to echo a previous statement from her campaign that had drawn attention: “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”
Social media users didn’t waste any time ridiculing Harris’s remarks.
“She’s in on the joke now, but that doesn’t render it less of a joke,” wrote Noah Rothman, a senior writer at National Review.
Political commentator Collin Rugg shared a clip of Harris’s speech, sarcastically praising it as “impressive” and referring to her words as “profound comments.”
In response, Juanita Broaddrick chimed in, “She should be forced to sit in a room alone and watch her own videos. She has the intelligence of dirt.”
Rugg went further, writing, “This is the woman that 75M Americans wanted to send to negotiate with world leaders like Putin and Xi. Extremely concerning.”
Fox News contributor Joe Concha joked, “Your 2028 frontrunner, everyone!”
Steve Milloy of Junk Science urged his followers, “If you have not thanked @realDonaldTrump today for saving us from this, please do so.”
New York Post columnist John Podhoretz poked fun at Harris’s phrasing, writing, “The context in which I exist is one in which your existence is casting a pall on my existence and yet I feel unburdened by what was or will be. Que Sera Sera.”
Pradheep J. Shanker, a contributor to National Review, quipped, “Right now, that context where I exist is where you will be unemployed in a month or so.”
Republican strategist Matt Whitlock highlighted the absurdity of the moment, writing, “Imagine being a young Democrat staffer laid off right before the holidays because bad campaign budgeting and seeing this.”
{Matzav.com}
When will her laughter and movie be over?
She is so zeez. I love the fact that she lights the Shabbat candles for Doug every Friday evening at sundown.
She’s so fake! She has absolutely no good qualities or characteristics. I don’t know what anyone sees in her. I’ll never understand it…
Dug- that’s what you get when you marry a shikse!!
Maskim?