Kamala Harris has been brutally mocked online after she tried to touch razor-sharp silicon during a tour of a semiconductor factory in Michigan.
VP Harris, 60, was told to keep her hands to herself while visiting Hemlock Semiconductors in Saginaw on Monday.
But the Democrat nearly caused panic as she approached a sharp harvested U-rod as she asked, 'Can I touch it?'
'Do not touch it,' the alarmed factory worker quickly replied. 'It is very sharp!!!'
'And Shiny' Kamala added.
Kamala Harris has been brutally mocked online after she tried to touch razor-sharp silicon during a tour of a semiconductor factory in Michigan
Social media users were quick to share clip of the moment as they trolled the Democratic nominee for president.
Former Republican National Committee communications specialist Steve Guest compared the moment to a scene from the HBO show VEEP.
'The silicone might be razor-sharp, but Kamala sure isn't'
'Factory tour or comedy show?'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14016531/Kamala-Harris-roasted-Michigan-factory-tour.html
Meanwhile Kammy's Taliban allies 'barred Afghan women from hearing each other's voices' in yet another brutal crackdown
- Women have been banned from hearing other women's voices
- The Taliban has been stripping women's rights away since 2021
- Women will be banned from talking to each other
The Taliban has banned women from hearing other women's voices, in its latest bid to control and subjugate an entire gender in Afghanistan.
Announced on Monday, the new rule means that women will now no longer be able to talk to each other.
Afghanistan's minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Khalid Hanafi said: 'Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear.'
He said these are 'new rules and will be gradually implemented, and God will be helping us in each step we take.'
Any woman who dares to break the new rules will be arrested and sent to prison, the terror group said.
Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman (R) walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province
A group of Afghan women clad in burqas walk towards a market in Ghazni
Taliban security officials stand guard as they check people and vehicles at a checkpoint, in Kabul, Afghanistan
Since the terror group took control of the nation in August 2021, after the Biden-Harris administration's heavily criticised exit, the Taliban has worked to strip away women's rights. According to the UN, more than 70 decrees, directives, statements, and systemised practices have targeted what women can and can't do.
Women have already been banned from speaking loudly in their own homes, and are not allowed to be heard outside.
Women are also already banned from speaking if unfamiliar men who aren't husbands or close relatives, are present.
'If it is necessary for women to leave their homes, they must cover their faces and voices from men' and be accompanied by a 'male guardian', according to the rules approved by the Taliban's supreme leader.
One former Afghan civil servant told the Telegraph of her despondency.
'They [the Taliban] are waging an all-out war against us, and we have no one in the world to hear our voices.
Afghan women wearing burka at the market in Andkhoy, Faryab Province, Northern Afghanistan
Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a street in Kandahar
'The world has abandoned us. Biden-Harris left us to the Taliban, and whatever happens to us now is a result of Western government policies.
'I feel depressed. The world is advancing in technology and having fun with their lives, but here we cannot even hear each other’s voice.'
Another woman told the newspaper: 'They want us not to exist at all, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
'They may succeed at some point, as many are taking their lives due to the pressure.
'They think ruling Afghanistan is only about suppressing women– we didn’t commit a crime by being born as women.'
The UN reported that just 1% of women believe they have influence in their communities, and that just nearly one in 10 women knows another who has tried to commit suicide since the Taliban took over.
On top of this, nearly one in five women said they hadn't spoken to another woman outside of their immediate family in three months.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14016003/Taliban-bars-Afghan-women-hearing-womens-voices-brutal-crackdown.html
Hundreds of Afghan refugees have been massacred by Iranian border guards as they ambushed the desperate group of 300 attempting to flee the Taliban.
The Islamic Republic's border forces opened fire on the migrants as they tried to cross into Iran via the Iran-Pakistan border.
Border guards brutally launched bullets and rockets in the direction of the migrants as they tried to enter Iran.
A survivor from the group said only 50 to 60 individuals made it out of the ambush alive.
Some 300 Afghan nationals at the Iran-Pakistan border were targeted by Iranian border guards as they attempted to flee from the Taliban
Hundreds of refugees were massacred by the guards
'We were at the Kalagan border when they ambushed us,' one survivor said.
'We were around 300 people, maybe 50 or 60 people survived unscathed, everyone else was either martyred or injured. Twelve of my friends were also killed'.
The refugees were not only targeted by gunfire but also by RPG attacks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13970369/Afghan-refugees-massacred-Iranian-border-guards-ambush-group-300-trying-flee-Taliban.html
Kammy's Taliban bans photographs of 'all living things' in Afghanistan, claiming it is forbidden under Islamic law
Taliban fighters ride on paddle boats at Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul.
A convoy of Taliban supporters in Herat
The new law detailed several rules for journalists, including banning the publication of images of all living things and ordering outlets not to mock or humiliate Islam, or contradict Islamic law.
Aspects of the new law include advice to the general public not to take or look at images of living things on phones and other devices.
Armed Taliban fighters, some dressed in military camouflage gear, along a road near Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul
Taliban on fairground ride with rocket launcher
Multiple UN agencies have also reported an increase in child and forced marriages since the Taliban takeover.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13958081/Taliban-ban-photographs-living-things-Afghanistan-forbidden-Islamic-law.html
Afghan women can't work, go to the shops without a male chaperone or speak in public because the West abandoned us to Kammy's Taliban
Even from many metres away in the crowded passageway of my local bazaar I could hear the voices of the Taliban.
Clad in their traditional robes and wielding automatic weapons, they were pulling people aside and questioning their business there, one of the arbitrary spot checks aimed at rooting out those who dare to break their oppressive rules.
I was accompanied by my brother – my ‘mahram’, or guardian – for single women like me are unable even to shop for groceries without a male chaperone. As Taliban rules also demand, I was covered from head to toe in my burka despite the stifling 30c heat.
Nonetheless, I still nudged my brother and gestured with a nod to him that we should quickly return home – the only way I could communicate with him as a new law introduced last month has banned women from speaking in public.
For encountering the Taliban is not worth the risk: however much you think you have complied with their evermore stifling demands, they find ways to brutalise you.
Women have lost all their basic human rights and freedoms since the Taliban took control three years ago.
Reduced to nothing more than domestic chattels, we find the boundaries of our lives shrunken to the four walls of our family home. Banned from looking directly at men we are not related to by blood or marriage, we have now even been robbed of the one thing left to us – our voice.
As the new law tells us: ‘Whenever an adult woman leaves her home out of necessity, she is obliged to conceal her voice, face and body.’
The predominant emotion among Afghan women young and old is fear and despair.
I am a woman in her mid-twenties who, before the Taliban returned to power, had a happy life in my small city. I worked in IT, and my salary helped support my extended family. I still lived at home and while I did not have a sweetheart, I hoped, even assumed I would marry for love.
In the meantime, I enjoyed many of life’s simple pleasures: picnics in the park, meeting friends in cafés.
How could I have known how quickly these freedoms would be taken from us when the Taliban swept back again?
My mother knew: I remember her choking sobs as we huddled around our television set and watched their fighters riding through the streets of Kabul.
One of my friend’s husbands is a shopkeeper, but even his income has plunged, since the women who could once pop in while passing can now not enter his shop without a mahram and have to ask for goods by pointing rather than speaking.
The Taliban’s dreaded morality police are everywhere. They conduct spot checks on our homes, to make sure we are living under their laws, while random checkpoints spring up overnight.
Fathers must stand by as their daughters – some barely teenagers, are sold into marriage to older men who repulse them.
Earlier this year, the Taliban also announced the reintroduction of public flogging and stoning of women, and they are only too aware that as a man’s word is prized over that of any woman, they do not have to do anything wrong to find themselves cast out to their deaths.
As one friend told me: ‘Even when I can go out with my husband, I do not want to. I feel frightened the moment I step out of my house.’
Is it any wonder we feel like caged birds? Our days rest heavy on us, trapped in our homes. We try to keep busy with domestic chores or reading – and even then only ‘approved’ books – but there are too many hours in the day.
Now that under the new rules our voices are also deemed to be instruments of vice, we cannot even speak freely indoors. If a passing Taliban hears singing, or loud reading, this too is an offence. We must speak softly at all times.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13857147/Afghan-women-like-work-shops-without-male-chaperone-speak-public-West-abandoned-Taliban.html
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