The coming calamity of the cackling candidate
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By Joan Swirsky
August 19, 2024
When my twin brother and I were children, we had a magical machine called a Victrola. We were able to put "33" and "45" and "78" records––I never learned what those numbers stood for––on the turntable and place the handle with the needle on each record to listen to the music we loved.
But every now and then, the needle, if not perfectly placed, would scratch the record, and that would result in the music being unable to go forward. I remember it once got stuck on Oh What a Beautiful Morning from the musical “Oklahoma,” and all we heard on an endless loop was morning, morning, morning, morning….
Now what in the world does this ancient factoid have to do with anything relevant to the present?
ENTER MS. PECULIAR
In fact, this is what the entire world has been witnessing in the peculiar affect––behavior––of Kamala Harris when she delivers a word that acts in her brain like the scratched record I just referred to and she is literally unable to get past that glitch.
Is this a neurological problem perhaps related to Tourette Syndrome?
Is it a psychiatric problem similar to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Is it a deep-down feeling of insecurity about who she is and what she is capable of doing, and therefore she gets “stuck” and is unable to move forward?
How to explain the last four years––and probably decades before––of this, um, malady? Condition? Brain disorder? Peculiarity?
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