Twat of the weekNo. 02Week of 22 Oct 2026
This week’s winner neededTwo takes.
Kamala Harris Former Vice President · Rally for Scott Colom, Columbus High School gym, Columbus, Miss.
A motivational one-liner went out into a Mississippi gym, came back unopened, and was re-sent with slightly different wording. We admire the persistence. We are less sure about the sentence.
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Subject: the advice she gives to young people she mentors.
Venue: Columbus, Mississippi. Thursday 22 Oct 2026.
Venue: Columbus, Mississippi. Thursday 22 Oct 2026.
Exhibit A
Verbatim, as reported
Verbatim, as reported
“…never let someone else with limited ability to see your capacity be a limitation on your ambition.”
“Let me repeat that: Never let anybody else’s, somebody else’s limited ability to see your capacity to be a limitation on your ambition,”
Source: New York Post, 22 Oct 2026 (Victor Nava). Excerpted; full quote in the receipts. Rally context: Mississippi Today.
Twat-o-Meter official reading
8/10
Verdict: Möbius motivationalMild waffleWord saladBuzzword bingoFull TED talkPeak twat
By the numbers
- Forms of “limit” in roughly 60 seconds8
- Takes needed to land the line2
- Different wordings across those takes2
- Days to make history, per the speech12
Why she won
The idea underneath is perfectly decent: don’t let doubters set your ceiling. The problem is the sentence carrying it, three abstract nouns stacked in a trench coat.
Then came the encore: “That’s their limitation. That’s not our limitation. That’s their limitation.” We get it. We’re limited.
03VacantSomeone, somewhere, is clearing their throat
04VacantNominations open