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Clueless Kamala boogies along with Puerto Rican Spanish song mocking her

Vice President Kamala Harris was left red-faced during her visit to Puerto Rico on Friday after she was spotted clapping along to a protest song against her before realizing what it meant after an aide translated the lyrics.

The protestors held signs with messages, including “Kamala Harris war criminal” and calling the United States “genocidal” as they sang a protest song against her visit.

Harris could be seen smiling and clapping along to the protest song before abruptly dropping her hands when a staffer explained what was happening.

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Full lyrics per @IstraPacheco

"We want to know, Kamala

What did you come here for?

We want to know, Kamala

We want to see

If you're going to talk about law 60

Or about the Fiscal Control Board

The vicepresident is here

Making history

We want to know

What she thinks of the colony

We will keep playing

The plena of our country

Long live Free Palestine

and Haiti too!"

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (TND) — Vice President Kamala Harris on a visit to Puerto Rico Friday clapped along to a protest anthem opposing her presence on the island.

Harris made the trip in part to tout the federal aid given to Puerto Ricans to remedy the effects of Hurricane Ian. In 2022, she fielded backlash from Republicans over remarks tying the funds to “equity” efforts.

A group of protesters at Friday's event, while pounding on drums, appeared to speculate over the political motivation behind her visit. The group also emphasized two controversies enveloping Puerto Rico.

“We want to know Kamala / what did you come to do?” a translation of a song protesters performed reads. “We want to know Kamala / What is going to happen / If you are going to talk about Law 60 / And the fiscal control board.”

Law 60 is a tax incentive allowing Puerto Rican residents to avoid federal tax on passive income. Though it was intended to bolster the island territory's economy, residents say Law 60 has enhanced gentrification, making it impossible to compete with wealthy buyers for housing.

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“Fiscal control board” refers to Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight and Management Board, a federal entity created to fix the island's financial crisis. The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 the board had sovereign immunity and could not be subject to federal lawsuits despite complaints from journalists seeking documents on its operations.

“The vice president arrived,” the translation continues. “Making history / We want to know / What do you think of the colony? / We will continue playing / The fullness of my country / Long live free Palestine, And also Haiti!”

A clip of the interaction appears to show Harris clapping along to the beat.

Though Puerto Ricans living on the island cannot vote in the November presidential election, Harris's visit coincided with President Joe Biden’s campaign efforts to target U.S. Latinos and Puerto Ricans. Some residents said they viewed the visit as an insult.

“But that is a farce and political theater to Puerto Ricans like me living on the island,” Puerto Rican journalist Susanne Ramírez de Arellano wrote in Bloomberg. “She will find rampant gentrification pushing Puerto Ricans out of their homes and endangering environmentally precious land, a deteriorating infrastructure and a fed-up population.”

More than half of U.S. voters do not approve of Harris’s job performance, according to a poll released this month.

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by Anonymousreply 21March 28, 2024 10:39 PM

Fuck them.

by Anonymousreply 1March 27, 2024 3:44 AM

Authentic as a hard shell taco.

by Anonymousreply 2March 27, 2024 3:45 AM

Liberate Haiti?

by Anonymousreply 3March 27, 2024 3:59 AM

If only she spoke PERFECT Spanish like George W. Bush

by Anonymousreply 4March 27, 2024 4:03 AM

Kamala is going to be PRESIDENT when Biden steps down or drops dead. DEAL WITH IT.

VOTE BLUE!!!!

by Anonymousreply 5March 27, 2024 4:07 AM

OP = troll

by Anonymousreply 6March 27, 2024 4:10 AM

That's a dirty trick to pull on Kamala but they certainly landed it well.

by Anonymousreply 7March 27, 2024 4:20 AM

[quote]Kamala is going to be PRESIDENT when Biden steps down or drops dead. DEAL WITH IT.

" DEAL WITH IT". What a great campaign slogan!

by Anonymousreply 8March 27, 2024 4:31 AM

She's an idiot. Dump her!

by Anonymousreply 9March 27, 2024 4:39 AM

Kam should have tossed paper towels to them.

by Anonymousreply 10March 27, 2024 5:18 AM

And that little colonizer was me!

by Anonymousreply 11March 27, 2024 2:12 PM

[quote]“We want to know Kamala / What is going to happen / If you are going to talk about Law 60 / And the fiscal control board.”

So catchy.💃🏽

by Anonymousreply 12March 27, 2024 2:19 PM

"She's an idiot. Dump her!"

On her worst day, when Kamala has the flu and puking her guts out all over the place, she's still far, far better than that craven egomaniacal jack ass, Donald Trump on his best day.

So I have no problems with Kamala being a heart beat away from the Oval Office.

by Anonymousreply 13March 27, 2024 2:23 PM

She was Attorney General, Senator, and VP. She's more qualified than 90% of those who ever ran for president.

That's the bottom line. I have no problems should she need to take over for Biden.

by Anonymousreply 14March 27, 2024 5:53 PM

If only she had been selling autographed Bibles.

by Anonymousreply 15March 27, 2024 6:39 PM

She thought they were singing a song like America from West Side Story.

by Anonymousreply 16March 27, 2024 7:28 PM

[quote] If only she had been selling autographed Bibles.

Unlike with Kamala, there apparently is an actual demand for Bibles.

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by Anonymousreply 17March 27, 2024 7:34 PM

Who even reads a bible these days? They used to leave one in every cheap hotel room when I was a kid and no one actually read them back then either.

by Anonymousreply 18March 27, 2024 8:18 PM

Reggaeton is shit. Her mistake was even acknowledging it as music.

by Anonymousreply 19March 27, 2024 8:28 PM

Dump tossed dry goods at them without protest. A black woman shows up and just by coincidence, they find their voices.

Interesting.

by Anonymousreply 20March 27, 2024 11:15 PM

NEW YORK TIMES

𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬’𝐬 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐨

(But still collected from local oligarchs half a billion dollars in campaign contributions for Joe)

The trip was meant, in part, to highlight the Biden administration’s dedication to aiding the island’s recovery. What unfolded instead was a revealing tableau of Democrats’ missteps and misjudgments.

Ms. Harris’s roughly five-hour visit began in the community of San Isidro, in the municipality of Canóvanas. There, she visited María Ramos de Jesús, an 86-year-old whose home was only recently rebuilt with funds from a program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The fact that it took seven years for Ms. Ramos’s home to be reconstructed after Hurricane María is indicative of how the federal government repeatedly fails Puerto Ricans, no matter which party is in charge.

while the Trump administration may have left Puerto Ricans in the dark after the hurricane, it was the Democrats who set the stage for the storm’s disastrous aftermath. Things might have turned out different had the Obama administration fairly confronted Puerto Rico’s financial crisis by offering debt relief, addressing historical injustices and protecting essential services, rather than saddling residents with a federally appointed fiscal control board that has only caused more harm.

While on the campaign trail, Joe Biden pledged to reverse the austerity policies imposed by the fiscal board and to support an audit of Puerto Rico’s debt to identify any illegally issued debt. These promises, however, fell by the wayside once he was in office.

In a scene reminiscent of the HBO show “Veep,” the vice president clapped haplessly along to the Spanish protest songs that greeted her, apparently not realizing the lyrics were critical of her visit.

After briefly experiencing the local culture, Ms. Harris moved on to a fund-raising event with wealthy “expat” donors. The event was held at the upscale residential and commercial complex Ciudadela, owned by an Act 60 beneficiary named Nicholas Prouty.

Ciudadela is also a symbol of Act 60, with a working-class community having been cleared to build luxury apartments and a dog park. It also played a role in the corruption trial of Puerto Rico’s former secretary of education, Julia Keleher, who pleaded guilty of charges related to signing a letter ceding to developers the right to build on land adjacent to a public school in exchange for a discount on an apartment in the Ciudadela complex.

The Government Accountability Office is scrutinizing the Act 60 tax breaks, and the Internal Revenue Service is investigating those who have tried to benefit from the law while skirting its requirements. Ms. Harris left Puerto Rico with what was reported to be nearly half a million dollars in donations for President Biden’s re-election fund.

On one hand, there’s a perfunctory nod to grass-roots empowerment; on the other, a cozying up to the very forces that are driving gentrification and displacement. While she did not toss paper towels, her visit was what Puerto Ricans call a papelón — an embarrassing spectacle.

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