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Yeah, you'd think the sight of a black woman being so cynically instrumentalised by an old white dude with a long history of backing racist policy would turn most people's stomachs. Joe has a women problem and a race problem, and in this pick he's shielded himself from both. It's smart politics, I guess, but it's not exactly 'yay, diversity!'. I guess it helps that Harris is cynical enough herself to not give a fuck about being instrumentalised, so who are we to care?
Edit: to be very clear, I also think Kamala Harris is a terrible person. She’s not a victim here, and given Biden’s obvious poor health has a strong chance of being president at some point in the next four years (assuming Joe can get over the line, that is).
Eejit
Harris is a strong choice why?
To team Biden she makes sense for fairly awful reasons;
She is no direct threat (she has proven to be neither popular or charismatic).
She’ll back corporations/donors.
She’ll happily argue for right-wing stance on law & order (against body-cams, for three-strikes, for marijuana over-policing, for criminalising parents of truant kids).
She adds some gender and racial diversity to the ticket but at a cost. As Nina Turner said. Voting for Biden is the “eating half a bowl of ...” option.