There is a lot of chatter on Twitter/X regarding Kamala Harris' bizarre word salads. 

For a long time, people have just assumed she is a moron, and I admit that this has been my working theory. She rose through the ranks of Democratic politics on the back of relationships with powerful people, implying that intelligence was not the driving force in her rise to power. 

She certainly is not charismatic, regardless of what the current propaganda keeps trying to sell to us. Until the media decided that they had no choice but to back her with all their firepower, they were actually quite disgusted by her, probably because of her collapse in the Democratic race in 2019. They had been 100% behind her and she collapsed into a heap of dung in that campaign. 

Now there is an alternate theory about why she is so incoherent, and once you look, you can't unsee the likelihood that it is true. 

A lot of rumors out there about Kamala having a serious drinking problem…apparently coming into focus as campaign heats up.

⏳Stay Tuned…

— James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) August 18, 2024

Is Kamala drunk most of the time? If you watch her talk with that possibility in mind, so much makes sense all of a sudden. All those word salads, the occasional slurring, the inappropriate laughs... These are all tells that her brain is fogged by something, and it may not be stupidity. 

2/ She even looks a mess here... pic.twitter.com/3X1AlWkF2g

— Nichole Liza (@nicholelizaq) August 18, 2024

Don't get me wrong; she is not the sharpest tool in the shed, not playing with a full deck or knocking it out of the park when she takes an IQ test. But is she as stupid as she seems, or is she drunk?

I vote drunk. 

4/ If it's public speaking anxiety, they have meds for that... pic.twitter.com/SkJbLjjm14

— Nichole Liza (@nicholelizaq) August 18, 2024

Obviously, I don't know; it could be a Xanax addiction, and if that is the case, that would be potentially worse. Addiction to benzodiazepines would be easier to hide but harder to actually kick during a campaign. The withdrawal symptoms are famously harsh, and the period of time it takes to get better is famously long. It is a remarkably unpleasant and debilitation process and there is no way to do it while traveling the country and speaking regularly to large crowds. 

6/ Alcohol-induced over-confidence breeds stupid, stupid ideas: Beat up the bouncer? Why not! Steal a patent? Damn straight! pic.twitter.com/KNxQuvxylO

— Nichole Liza (@nicholelizaq) August 18, 2024

But seriously, doesn't she look inebriated? She doesn't always slur her words, but when she does it is remarkably hard to unsee. What the campaign is trying to sell as "joy" looks to me like inebriation. Not falling down drunk, obviously, but not sober either. 

8/ Why is she telling us her name? That's just #Weird ... pic.twitter.com/tqJehi1FIl

— Nichole Liza (@nicholelizaq) August 18, 2024

I totally missed this until it was pointed out to me, but I think that was confirmation bias on my part. I have been seeing her up on the national stage for five years, and you assume that nobody could rise to her position without being at the very least sober when in public. 

But then again, she didn't exactly rise to where she is by being especially good at politics. She was carried there by others who were pushing her up the mountain, not hiking up it by herself. Since it didn't take skill to get there, maybe even sobriety wasn't required. 

10/ Kind of hard to take her seriously on 2A when she's like this... pic.twitter.com/Txg6ueXLdR

— Nichole Liza (@nicholelizaq) August 18, 2024

Of course, the same could hold true with my new hypothesis. I could be seeing inebriation instead of stupidity because I am primed to see it. Somebody threw the hypothesis out there because it fits what we observe, and once I saw it perhaps I see every idiotic moment in that light. After all, I have no access to her blood alcohol level and no way to get proof that she has been drinking. 

12/
"What's wrong with Aunt Kamala?"
"Oh nothing, honey, she's just really happy."

(Seriously though, I think she needs help.) pic.twitter.com/ZSdod3F8mT

— Nichole Liza (@nicholelizaq) August 18, 2024

And it would seem odd that this has been successfully covered up for so long. But then again, Tim Walz's drunk driving lies were covered up for decades, as have his serial lies about his service record. 

If the media doesn't want to see it and the people who are tied to her professionally don't want to say it, it will not be said or reported. It really could be that simple. Lots of things get swept under the rug all the time. 

Apparently Kamala was told not to speak during this event because she was too intoxicated, but she did anyways. https://t.co/yN7vzILiE0 pic.twitter.com/yBEdkAw1BA

— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 17, 2024

Watch clips of Kamala's bizarre moments over the years and see for yourself. I would be very interested to know if others have the same impression.