Vice President Kamala Harris was “seriously” lined up online for a repetitive and meandering statement at the site of the mass shooting at the July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, where the veep repeated a previous call for federal legislation on the weapons control.
Harris, 57, spoke in the Chicago suburbs Tuesday evening after asking Congress to pass a new assault weapons ban while addressing a teachers’ union meeting earlier in the day. He vowed that alleged shooter Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, 21, would be “removed from justice,” but then repeated himself “seriously” during his statements.
“And we have to take these things seriously, as seriously as you do, because you’ve been forced to take it seriously,” Harris told Highland Park residents.
“The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this can happen anywhere, in any peace-loving community,” Harris continued. “And we should be together and talk about why we should stop.”
Harris is being wrapped up on social media for her “really” repetitive comments in Highland Park a day after a gunman killed seven people at an Independence Day parade. Getty Images
Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Sheridan posted a video of Harris’ speech on Twitter, along with his repetitive quote.
“Did anyone write this for her?” a read answer.
Another critic said he thought the quote was a “joke,” while a third questioned whether Harris’ comments were a product of “first-generation” artificial intelligence software.
“Word salad,” he read another version on Twitter. “It means absolutely nothing.”
“An uninterrupted streak for nineteen months without ever making a consistent statement as vice president,” another tweet said. “Almost admirable for its consistency.”
One detractor insisted that Harris could even star in a remake of HBO’s award-winning political satire “Veep,” sarcastically praising “cheap production,” authentic movie clips and “great dialogue.”
“Does she seriously believe we should take seriously what she said?” mocked another social media critic.
Tuesday was not the first time Harris was accused of inconsistency while trying to make serious statements.
Days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, Harris told German reporters, “I mean, listen, guys, we’re talking about the potential for a war in Europe. I mean, let’s pray for a moment to understand the importance. “We are talking about. More than 70 years have passed. And during these 70 years … there has been peace and security. We are talking about the real possibility of a war in Europe.”
Critics noted that Harris’s definition of “peace and security” ignored Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe during the Cold War, the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and the annexation of Crimea by part of Russia in 2014.
Days later, the vice president was criticized for giving an overly simplistic explanation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on a morning radio program after she was asked to describe the war “in secular terms.”
“Therefore, Ukraine is a country in Europe,” he said. “It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically this is wrong and goes against everything. that we defend “.