In Brat Summer, Kamala IS Brat

Since I basically live under a rock, passing on all pop culture and instead watch an inordinate amount of dreary political videos that make one ever despondent for the future of the world, I had no idea this was going on and has been going on long before Trump got shot (or not) and Biden finally acquiesced. An entire generation of younger Americans waiting to be represented by someone of their time. And now it's here.

And KamalaHQ has embraced all of it, with her social media now the lime green of Brat, Instagram here, Twitter here. As British pop star Charli XCX posted on X that “kamala IS brat”

Source: Wired

Jake Tapper looked as flummoxed as everyone else. After a week spent trying to figure out the whys and hows of the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump, the CNN anchor was now facing something far more perplexing: why a British pop singer was calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “brat.” As his panel on The Lead tried to explain, he eventually put it together: We’re all brat. “I will aspire to be brat,” Tapper concluded.

So say we all, apparently.

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