Kamala Harris' Was The Astroturf Candidate

From PJ Media: "It Was All Fake: Far-Left Billionaires Astroturfed the Tidal Wave of Early Enthusiasm for Harris." I've maintained for years (decades, now) that the Republicans are the party of millionaires and the Democrats are the party of billionaires. Robert Spencer says essentially the same thing--at least the last bit--in his piece:

    Last summer, after Old Joe Biden was forced out of running for reelection and Kamala Harris was anointed as the Democrat candidate for president, the far left’s propaganda arm (that is, the establishment media) made a massive push to make this failed vice president and longtime party hack seem new and appealing. A key part of this effort was a gaggle of young “influencers” who took to Instagram and TikTok with an enthusiastic pro-Harris message. It was sincere, it was spontaneous, it was exciting — or at least that’s what it seemed to be. Now (I know, knock me over with a feather) it turns out that the whole thing was faked: the entire Harris bubble was the artificial creation of a bunch of leftist billionaires.

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    There was plenty of money available for this quixotic effort. All the Harris fake enthusiasm and sexual libertinism fearmongering was “quietly funded by an elusive group of Democratic billionaires and major donors in an arrangement designed to conceal the payments from voters.”
 
    RealClearInvestigations discovered that Way to Win, “one of the major donor groups behind the effort, spent more than $9.1 million on social media influencers during the 2024 presidential election.” The money went to coaching “influencers” on “phrases, issue areas, and key themes to ‘disseminate pro-Kamala content throughout the cycle.’” No fewer than 550 “influencers” were on the payroll, getting “talking points that were rapidly distributed” on key issues that would help sell Kamala to the American people. The social media wonks worked hard for their money, producing an impressive 6,644 posts on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, and X. 

Like Biden, she was intended to be, as James Blish put it, "a dummy ruler chosen for low intelligence and complete moral plasticity, who amuses himself and keeps the masses distracted from their troubles with bread, circuses, and brushfire-wars."