On Wednesday, Kamala Harris gave a speech in Pittsburgh. It wasn’t her typical campaign speech, as she actually discussed policy for once. But also, she one-upped a Donald Trump gaffe from 2016.
There are so many jobs that require a college degree, even though there is nothing about the job that you need to go to college for. Many Republicans have been for changing this.
Apprenticeship is a system to train workers to acquire skills for certain jobs, usually those that don’t require a college education. Bolstering apprenticeship programs was a big part of Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign in 2016.
In Pittsburgh, Harris said:
“And here’s what else we will do when I am president, we will double the number of registered apprenticeships by the end of my first term because I almost made it a goal of mine.”
This looks good. It would not be the first time that Harris is stealing ideas from Republicans. Except that she isn’t.
Harris is talking about “registered apprenticeships.” These are union programs. She is not proposing a policy to benefit the workforce or the business community. She’s throwing a goodie at unions to buy their votes, hoping that nobody notices.
She is carrying on a Joe Biden tradition of trying to buy votes.
There was also a comical moment during her speech. In 2016, Trump gave a speech at Liberty University and cited “Two Corinthians.” He is still ridiculed for not knowing his biblical references. Fair enough!
In Pittsburgh, Harris said:
“And not only must we build the industries of the future in America, we must also build them faster. There’s a time for patience and there’s a time for impatience. That’s not in Ecclesiastics … but the simple truth is, in America, it takes too long and it costs too much to build.”
Give it to Harris. Licensing reform is not in the Bible, but this “Ecclesiastics” gaffe was quickly swept under the corporate media rug, which is bending over backwards to elect this nitwit.
As the Washington Times reported:
“Politicians often wind up in trouble when they start quoting from the Bible, and Kamala Harris is no exception.
The vice president was widely fact-checked after alluding to what she called “Ecclesiastics,” an apparent reference to the Old Testament book better known as “Ecclesiastes.”
“You know, there’s a time for patience, and there’s a time for impatience,” Ms. Harris said in a speech Wednesday at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh. “That’s not in Ecclesiastics.”
In a January 2016 speech at Liberty University, he cited “Two Corinthians” instead of “Second Corinthians,” a flub that drew widespread coverage in the mainstream press.
“Trump bungles Bible reference at Liberty University,” said Politico, while the Washington Post reported that “Trump’s ‘Two Corinthians’ reference draws laughs at Liberty University.”
It remains to be seen whether Ms. Harris’s misstep will garner the same level of media mockery, but conservative radio host Todd Starnes said he doubts it.
He pointed to a little-noticed incident in which President Biden, a lifelong Catholic, slipped up not once but twice in his 2020 Thanksgiving address by referring to the “Palmist,” as opposed to the “Psalmist,” meaning one of writers of the Book of Psalms.
“[W]e can with the help of God heal, and if we do, and I’m sure we can, we can proclaim with the Palmist — with the Palmist who wrote these following words: ‘The Lord is my strength and my shield,’” said the then-president elect.
Mr. Biden even had the benefit of a teleprompter. Still, the mistake met with crickets from the media, said Mr. Starnes.
“There were no stories condemning Biden or Harris for their gaffes — not a one,” he said in a Wednesday post. “The media completely ignored their mistakes. But that’s not what happened when President Trump once misspoke about God’s Word … There were literally thousands of stories published in news outlets across the nation.”
Mr. Starnes called it “a great illustration of the Mainstream Media bias against former President Trump.”
As you would expect, dear reader and listener of BreakingBattlegrounds.vote, there is dead silence from the corporate media on their preferred candidate, as you would expect. Double standards all around.
It is exhausting.
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