A thread of all of the false, racist, sexist, stupid shit that Isaac whatshisname wrote in The Atlantic about Kamala Harris today.

1. “Harris is pretending that she’s not campaigning to be Biden’s running mate.” 1/

Kamala Harris is neither pretending nor campaigning. She has stated clearly that she’s honored to be considered for VP and will serve if asked. She’s the highest- ranking Black woman in America and she’s just doing her fvcking job. 2/

2. “She and her team are avoiding situations that could create stumbles”.

Says who. Harris ran the second largest DOJ for six years, has been a sitting Senator for three, presided front and center over Senate hearings. No one needs to keep Kamala hidden to prevent gaffes 3/

3. “They’re trying to ease concerns in Biden’s orbit that if she’s picked and they win, she’ll start running for president the morning after the inauguration”.

Bullshit line designed to paint the Black woman as being greedy and ambitious. Dare I say it, uppity. 4/

4. “Harris declined several requests for an in-depth discussion... she favors single-topic interviews on TV where she feels more comfortable deflecting and knows that commercial breaks can help her run out the clock.”

I don’t know who you’re writing about but it sure as hell 5/

is not Kamala Devi Harris who talks fluently and extensively on TV, often THROUGH breaks, on a variety of topics. You sound mad she didn’t grant you an interview. I wonder the fvck why.

Kamala Harris does not “deflect”, a word you repeatedly use which does not mean what 6/

you apparently think it means, or you’re wielding it in bad faith. She is unfailingly direct. Not putting up with bullshit isn’t deflecting.

5. “But the version of Harris the public knows often comes off scripted and indirect” 7/

Your opinion as a mediocre white man steeped in racial bias wasn’t fvcking asked for. You hate it when she laughs on a late night comedy show because that’s deflection. You hate it when she is prepared because that’s “scripted”. We see you Isaac Chuck Todd. 8/

6. “But she also reinforced her preexisting reputation for evasiveness: I heard from several high-level Democratic operatives...”

Many people are saying! Kamala Harris’ “reputation for evasiveness” exists only in your misogynoir-soaked mind. 9/

7. “But when I asked him if he feels like Harris is more substantive than she sometimes appears...”

Now THIS isn’t at all a loaded, bad faith question! You just characterized the highest ranking Black woman in America, the first Black woman AG, as lacking in substance. 10/

8. “In October, desperate for a Hail Mary pass to save her campaign, she proposed banning Trump from Twitter. “

Once again ascribing the worst possible motives and derogatory language to describe a sincere position Kamala Harris has held and talked about for months. 11/

9. “Harris was chastened by the failure of her presidential run, which launched like a rocket and ended like a deflated blimp.”

Chastened? By who? YOU? You sound like you think you’re her massa. Was Warren “chastened”? Beto? Pete? This one really makes me livid. 12/

10.”She’s also still atoning politically for what became her defining moment of the campaign: taking Biden’s legs out from under him at the first debate.”

Atoning? To who? Harris hasn’t apologized. Your cynical attempt to paint her as both weak and subversive is disgusting. 13/

11. A quote from another white dude: “What she did to him in that debate was treacherous...He trusted her. He had helped her before.“

This is racist and sexist full stop. The contempt the author and the person he gleefully quotes is palpable.14/

12. “It was a debate,” Harris said, deploying the laugh she often uses to deflect during television interviews.”

A Black woman laughed on a late night comedy show. I’m confused, I thought she was too “scripted”. Now laughing is the problem? Maybe it’s just her existence? 15/

13. “Harris’s hesitation in endorsing Biden earlier this year only reinforced some of his supporters’ suspicions about her.”

Many people are saying! Kamala waited until her female colleagues withdrew out of respect. If she had done otherwise you’d call her “treacherous”. 16/

And finally, the shit frosting on top of this white, embittered cake.
14. “Biden is not going to pick a mythical-beam-of-light woman of color. He’s going to pick an actual politician,” says Sean McElwee, a pollster who has put out surveys showing that liberals want Warren.”
17/

Reducing one of the most accomplished women in America to a “mythical beam of light” (wut?) while alluding to old polls that don’t even say what you claim.

Because whyte not? 18/18

(and sorry, I know I screwed up the threading).