Kamala Harris reaches out to men

This is not satire, although it would win an award if it were.

I was an appellate lawyer for the Justice Department for most of my career, and learned a lesson here and there over the years. One of the most valuable was to button it when your opponent is burying himself or herself. In about a quarter of my cases, my opponent’s opening argument was so self-destructive that, when it came my turn to speak, the smart move was to tell the judges that, unless they had questions, the United States would rest on its brief.

I don’t think I ever got a question, or lost a case, doing that. My guess is that I also gained some goodwill with the court by showing that, every now and again, a lawyer would appear who knew how to shut up.

That letting the other side talk its way into the ground might be Trump’s best strategy is the message from a Kamala Harris ad I saw today. [UPDATE: I now understand that the ad was not put out by the Harris campaign per se but by an allied group working with her]. The ad is designed, I guess, to show that the Vice President understands and values men — this against the backdrop of polling that Trump is winning the male vote (while losing women).

The ad is a minute and a half, and is worth your time if you want to know how thoroughly Ms. Harris does not understand men — either that or affirmatively detests them as idiots, wahoos and weirdos. It’s as if the ad were scripted by someone who never actually met a man and “learned” about them only by reading a bunch of feminist screeds, see e.g. the ones discussed in this post by Matt Taibbi.

Here’s the Harris ad:

I’ve thought for some time that the winner of November’s election will be the one who lets the other side have the airwaves. This piece does nothing to persuade me otherwise.