OPINION:
This is what you get when you take more than 200 years of hard-fought history, fearless progress and unrivaled leadership in the world to build the greatest global power ever devised by humans on earth — and hand it to an imbecile.
Asked at a press conference in Poland about the massive and growing humanitarian crisis caused by the savage Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris burst into her signature cackling laughter.
The crazed woman really is the most terrorizing Joker ever played on the big screen. Jack Nicholson and Joaquin Phoenix sit in dark rooms before flickering TVs marveling in jealousy at her terrorizing performances.
And she does it all without smeared, garish makeup.
Her stunned host, Polish President Andrzej Duda, proceeded to answer the question about the refugees in light of the hilarity Kamala Harris found in the flood of widowed women and orphaned children gathering at Poland’s border.
Perhaps realizing that she was — yet again — in the deep end without her water wings, The Joker retreated to her worn bag of gags, tricks and squeaky noses to pull out a cartoonishly awkward cliche for the solemn moment.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed!” she grinned ridiculously.
It is important to remember that when this woman tossed her hat into the ring for president two years ago, all the veteran geniuses in Washington media predicted that this blithering fool was so impressive that she would be “the one to beat” for the presidency.
The Joker may be the haunting face and cackling voice of Washington incompetence today, but she is hardly the whole problem.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed!”
It was not clear whether The Joker meant that as an olive branch or some kind of threat. So, Mr. Duda — being a serious adult — simply moved on.
“We are looking for international support because indeed the vast majority of Ukrainian refugees are coming to our country,” Poland’s president pleaded.
“We will not send them back to what is a war zone,” The Joker responded meekly.
It might be tempting to think that as Democrats facing reelection in November abandon the Biden White House, the administration dispatched The Joker to eastern Europe simply to destroy her political career.
Kind of like putting her in charge of our own southern border.
To put it in cartoon imagery that The Joker and the rest of the White House might understand, sending someone to preside over the catastrophe in Ukraine is like the Roadrunner handing Wile E. Coyote an anvil just as he is about to disappear off a jagged cliff to a barren ravine below — followed promptly by a grand piano.
But the sad truth is that as hopelessly unqualified and ridiculous as The Joker is, she is probably the very best this White House has to offer. Sent to patch up relations with allies after the U.S. nixed Poland’s plans to send fighter jets to help Ukraine, The Joker flat-out lied.
“The United States and Poland are united in what we have done and are prepared to do to help Ukraine and the people of Ukraine. Full stop,” she said, even as Polish jets remained on the ground of no use to Ukrainians.
Not only is that a lie, but in the same breath she basically accused the Polish president of lying.
And then she wandered into another one of her incomprehensible word salads.
“I can tell you that the issue facing the Ukrainian people and our allies in the Eastern flank is something that occupies one of our highest priorities,” she said, without cackling. “In terms of paying attention to the needs, understanding it’s a dynamic situation, requires us to be nimble and swift.”
Yes, she said “nimble and swift.”
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor for the Washington Times.
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