Even CNN—normally a reliable mouthpiece for the DNC—jumped in with two separate segments savaging Kamala's "price gouging" proposals, which seem to come straight out of Venezuela.

We'll start with the network's Economics and Political Commentator Catherine Rampell, who went off on Kamala's Marxist ideas for almost a full two and a half minutes:

...first of all, nobody can explain what price gouging means. It's like that old line about pornography; I know it when I see it. In the sense that what does it mean to have an excessive price or an excessive profit margin? That seems to be shorthand for a price or a profit margin that bugs me, that seems too high. //

It's not going to be markets, it's not going to be supply and demand that's determining how much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs. It's going to be some bureaucrat in DC, which seems totally unworkable, first of all.

We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before-- Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etcetera. It leads to shortages, it leads to black markets, you know, [and] plenty of uncertainty…

Roughly 95 percent of these border crossers were men between the ages of 18 and 60, he said.

The San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition estimates that there are 200,000 crossings daily, meaning if there were 300,000 Venezuelans on top of the regular traffic, it is an increase of 150 percent. //

“They were right there as you go through the line, the car line, and the walking line,” he said. “They were right there all getting-gathering to come back into San Diego. I mean, it's not hidden. It's out in the open. I mean, everyone can see it.” //

“They were waving a lot of us in the cars; they were just waving us through,” he said.

“Today it was just literally just waving people through, and we still had a 25-to-30-minute late wait,” he said. //

“Normally they'll say: ‘Have a nice day, get out of here, thanks,’” he said. “He just went OK and waved everyone on. He didn't even ask for my identity document. He didn't even touch it. He was just sitting in his chair.” //

The businessman said it was also a betrayal that it took him 19 months to secure his Global Entry pass, while he heard foreigners secure theirs in 10-to-14 days.

The eyewitness himself said he felt his government failed him as he said the migrants were taken care of better than American citizens with new clothes, new shoes, and backpacks.

“They were well-dressed, well-fed, and had all the supplies they need,” he said.

British author and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray put the paramount choice in the 2024 presidential election — and all presidential elections — into proper perspective, and it couldn't be more stark.

Kamala Harris believes she knows the choice before the public in November. It is between going “forwards” and going “backwards.” Since the Democratic nominee is wise about the nature of time, she insists that this November, America should choose to go forward.

In fact, it would be good if this country could go back. To the economy we had before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden entered office. Because the most consequential choice there is in this election is between left-wing economics and right-wing economics. Between the economics of Biden-Harris and the economics of Donald Trump.

In some areas of life, the left-right divide is blurry. But in economics, the difference is clear. //

Murray then nailed the "clear difference."

It is between those who would grow the size of the economy and those who would grow the size of the state. //

"For once," Murray wrote, "we can judge the candidates not on their words but on their deeds," adding: "Unfortunately, this is not good news for Kamala Harris.". //

He also noted that Democrats like to pretend Trump's tax cuts only benefited the rich, which he called "simply untrue."

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) didn’t just massively spur economic growth, it also saw the average taxpayer receive an on-average tax cut of around $1,500.

What are these “clear rules of the road” or the thresholds that determine when a price or profit level becomes “excessive”? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification. //

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is. It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk.

At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat. (There’s a reason narrower “price gouging” laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices. //

But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a “communist,” maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be labeled as federal price controls. //

The "policy" is horrible, but you're just supposed to be vibing on how she's going to take care of the evil corporations. She apparently vetted this policy like she vetted her running mate Tim Walz — which is to say not at all or keeping her eyes covered about all the bad stuff. //

anon-aqyc Jerry's Middle Finger
an hour ago
They are just following the playbook of every Marxist since the beginning of time. Promise the world and when you get in power bring out the iron fist.

I am aware that Marx did not write about it until the 19th century, but the idea was not new with him. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons Jerry's Middle Finger
an hour ago
They know it doesn’t work and they don’t care. If everything fails, that means the elites get more money and more power. //

Donner’s Party
an hour ago
WaPo must have gotten the Memo from Bezoes, that Kamala’s new Joy policy wasn’t going to work for Amazon.
No Amazon, No WaPo, No Job.

Now they are pushing citizenship at a record pace, hoping to use new citizens that "historically lean Democrat" to boost Harris’s election prospects.

Over 3.3 million immigrants have become naturalized citizens since the two entered the White House.

It is, without a doubt, an active attempt at “reshaping the electorate” in a way that could alter the outcome of the 2024 election. //

msctex
an hour ago
The most purely Leftist result of this effort as it seems to stand, would be if they were to vote Republican, which is more than possible, given the contradiction of people fleeing Leftism voting for Leftists.

This is so true, perhaps it has not occurred to Democrats that no longer wearing the mask they maintained since the end of WWII, might just matter in this regard.

Unfortunately, it is likely not that simple. This is really about padding Voter Rolls which amount to nameless numbers, as opposed to adding potential Voters, however illegal they may be.

Always, always, always take the Evil to the nth degree, with these people. It's where the reality of any matter will be found.

"It's going to stop us from being builders, and we need to support the side that's going to let our civilization thrive," Lonsdale added.

That's always been the trouble with leftist policies; they are deeply and fundamentally anti-growth, anti-business, and anti-prosperity. Kamala Harris's policies (at least, what we know of them if you can keep track of her policy changes as they go by) include increasing taxation and regulation and attempting to make sure "everyone ends up in the same place," which smacks of socialism.

These are not things that investment bankers or tech moguls want to hear. //

anon-x8p1
8 hours ago edited
Don' you like the idea Kamala will pay millions of our tax dollars for armies of new government employees, just to track down the price of celery at your local super market?

Always, always, always ask how many new government employees (D) any Democrat program will require. That is the real name of the game - expand Big Government(D).

We are close to a critical tipping point where Big Government(D) finally swallows the rest of us whole. Yes, it is that critical.

A source told Axios that “the campaign buys search ads with news links to give voters searching for information about Vice President Harris more context.”

The campaign has rewritten headlines since August 3, targeting over a dozen outlets:

The Associated Press
CBS News
CNN
The Guardian
The Independent UK
NPR
PBS
Time
USA Today
The Guardian, CNN, USA Today, and NPR told Axios they had no idea the Harris campaign had these ads. //

The ads include links to real articles from the news outlets, but the headlines and supporting text have been altered to read as though the articles support the Harris campaign’s objectives. //

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Yesterday, Sara Fischer of Axios threw a fit on CNN over “disinformation” and Elon Musk allowing Trump to “say whatever he wants.”

Today, she’s hand-waving away the Kamala Harris campaign editing press headlines in ads to spread disinformation.

Incredible.
5:32 PM · Aug 13, 2024 //

Evil Otto in reply to dwb. | August 14, 2024 at 7:29 am
Do you understand how it works? Democrats can get away with things Republicans can’t. If the GOP even tried this it would be national headlines.

Ok, then, why does Harris have to wait to become president to do anything about, well, anything? //

Former Biden domestic policy adviser Susan Rice described presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris as an “integral architect” of President Joe Biden’s agenda.

From Fox News:. //

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Kamala: "When I am president, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices."

Kamala has been Vice President for 1,301 days.

Prices are up 20.2% while real average weekly wages are down 3.9%.

If Kamala has a plan to bring down prices, why isn't she doing it right now?

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georgfelis | August 14, 2024 at 2:00 pm
To be clear, they’re lying. The ‘support staff’ for the current administration makes all the decisions, determines what legislation to push, what to ignore, who to promote, what agendas to embrace, and so on. The only real decisions the two nitwits at the top of this anthill have made over the last three years is what bribes to take. The positions of the current administration have proven to be highly profitable for the current administration and their supporters, but crushing and destructive for the rest of the country. In order to get reelected, the support staff need to position the current administration as opposed to the current administration, and to that end they are lying like crazy. Hopefully, they lose. Big.

How can Harris please both her base and independents when they have such conflicting desires on these and so many other issues? The short answer is she cannot pull this off. At some point in the near future, Kamala will finally have to come clean with voters and make it clear where she stands on these pressing issues.

When this day finally comes, and Kamala outlines where she currently stands on everything from the economy to the border, a reckoning will occur. At this point, I believe Kamala and her campaign team are desperately trying to prolong the honeymoon. However, all honeymoons must end at some point. //

writeofcenter
5 minutes ago
Elections are popularity contests these days. Particularly, who looks young and vibrant versus who doesn’t. Biden is out because he looked old and decrepit and finally, his senility became publicly displayed.

Harris appears youthful by comparison and that’s what the D’s are selling. It doesn’t matter how vacuous or radically progressive she is. It’s all imagery. It’s all Hollywood. Or You Tube for that matter. //

anon-jbc5
an hour ago
You are being optimistic. She will never have to define where she stands on any issue. This is a "vibes" version of a basement campaign.

Big government. Big spending. Big tax increases. //

IRS data showed that Minnesota loses “about ten households earning more than $200,000 for every six that it gains, which is the fifth worst ratio among the states.”

Harris said she was going to be focused on the economy when she gets around to putting out policy positions. But she's occupying office now; what has she done in that capacity? Biden-Harris has only made everything worse. So why would anyone believe anything about what she says she wants to do in the future? //

If she can't even deal with the regular press pool, how is she supposed to deal with hostile world leaders? This is nuts, she isn't even answering the press as much as Biden is.

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Understandable that Kamala's campaign would find it confusing to listen to a presidential candidate speak off the teleprompter for more than 0 seconds.

Kamala HQ @KamalaHQ
Our statement on... whatever that was
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11:31 PM · Aug 12, 2024 //

Benito
11 hours ago
I like it because Trump making comments like this about kamala is going to get in her head making her scared to do interviews

CnellyB Benito
11 hours ago edited
well, there is plenty of space .....

GSD Life CnellyB
10 hours ago
Lol, you owe me a new monitor. Not sure I'm going to get all this coffee, that I just laughed out of my mouth, off my screen. //

Weminuche45
10 hours ago
Actually, most "self-obsessed rich guys" are Democrats today because being a Democrat is much more lucrative, is less risky and creates much less friction. For anyone who is self-obsessed and chasing money and power, the choice is simple.

Being a Conservative, or even a classical liberal today, requires holding principles more important than their own self-interest. It requires personal responsibility, courage and sacrifice.

Any coward can be a woke regressive. That only requires the willingness to point the finger of blame anywhere but your own actions.

The Kamala Harris campaign has been editing press headlines and putting the fake versions in ads as a way to spread disinformation. That's according to a new report that found multiple instances of Google ads being manipulated without the consent of the various news organizations linked to the false headlines.

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🚨🚨 The Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publishers are on her side, Axios has found.
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Harris-sponsored Google ads suggest publishers are on her side
3:35 PM · Aug 13, 2024 //

There is no doubt in my mind that this would be a major scandal if the Trump campaign were involved. Could you imagine the screams of "disinformation" and threatened lawsuits from press organizations? It'd be non-stop. Because it's Harris, though, it's no big deal. //

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Yesterday, Sara Fischer of Axios threw a fit on CNN over “disinformation” and Elon Musk allowing Trump to “say whatever he wants.”

Today, she’s hand-waving away the Kamala Harris campaign editing press headlines in ads to spread disinformation.

Incredible.
5:32 PM · Aug 13, 2024

A senior Department of Defense official linked to an organization that lobbies for the mullahs in Tehran has continued to hold the highest level of security clearance and visit the White House. //

Senior Department of Defense official Ariane Tabatabai participated in multiple meetings organized by the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting scores of nominees across the government, visitor logs reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

Tabatabai was at the White House just two months after Semafor revealed she was a key member of a secretive Iranian influence group, the Iran Experts Initiative, that reported back to Tehran’s foreign ministry, according to the logs. She participated in at least seven other White House gatherings throughout the end of 2023 and into April 2024, mixing with officials from a range of cabinet-level agencies. //

Her patron is none other than Phil Gordon, Kamala Harris's national security adviser.

In his resignation letter, Dunleavy criticized how the committee conducted its investigation into the Afghanistan withdrawal and the series of failures involved in the disaster. He describes the situation as "a diplomatic failure, an intelligence failure, a military failure, a strategic failure, a policy failure, a planning failure, a political failure, a truth-telling failure, and a moral failure" and stresses that each of these aspects needed thorough investigation.

The investigator explained that his efforts to look into key aspects of the withdrawal were “repeatedly stymied by our chief investigator and by senior staff,” which resulted in what he calls “investigative paralysis.”

Much of Dunleavy’s frustration stems from a reluctance to hold high-ranking officials accountable for their missteps – especially Vice President Kamala Harris, who he describes as a key decision-maker in the withdrawal. //

In his closing remarks, Dunleavy expressed concerns that the failures of the Afghanistan withdrawal have not been adequately addressed and fears these oversights will have serious consequences for future U.S. foreign policy.

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The way the US corporate media transformed Kamala Harris from a national embarrassment to a transformative pioneer overnight -- without even pretending to care about anything that she thinks or believes -- is a powerful testament to how potent the science of propaganda is:
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The reintroduction of Kamala Harris https://ti.me/4fCTs5n
10:06 AM · Aug 12, 2024. //

The article is titled, "The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris,” and like similar headlines and stories in newspapers, magazines and websites around the country, they try to depict a candidate who’s been reborn, who’s undergone a magical metamorphosis and gone from an ugly caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly. //

But here’s the reality: Nothing about this woman has changed in the past 22 days, not her record, not her cringe-inducing mannerisms, not her lack of accomplishments as vice president—not a single thing. Yet the media is seemingly in lockstep pumping out story after story about how exciting and competent she’s suddenly become. //

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Kamala Harris has been reintroduced more times than the McDonalds McRib sandwich.

7:32 AM · Aug 12, 2024. //

anon-xztj
6 hours ago
Also remember or for those who didn't know Time Magazine had Adolf Hitler on their cover in 1938 as "Man of the Year"!

Do you know what the thing is about principles, as opposed to politics? Principles are consistent. Principles, as opposed to politics, apply equally in all circumstances. That's why so few politicians, especially Democrats, have anything even remotely approaching principles; they are all about The Side.

As an example: If, say, a presidential candidate was virulently against requiring voters to show ID before casting a ballot, then they should be open to letting would-be voters enter a campaign rally without showing ID. Right?

Not if you're Kamala Harris. //

Now, let's go on record here: There's nothing wrong with making rally attendees show an ID to get in, especially when there is an RSVP list. That's a perfectly reasonable requirement, and in our modern world where one has to have a photo ID for almost every essential facet of life - ... //

This is especially true considering that there has already been an attempt on the life of a presidential candidate this year.

But it's the hypocrisy that galls. This is a woman who has been adamantly against voter ID requirements for years, and she makes up the most ridiculous reasons for her opposition. //

She is, as I have said and will keep saying, not only dishonest, but a hypocrite, and for those and many other reasons, she is utterly unqualified to be president.

While serving as California attorney general in 2016, Kamala Harris sent 11 California Department of Justice agents to raid the home of journalist and pro-life activist David Daleiden. Harris’ office seized Daleiden’s camera equipment and hard drives containing undercover videos allegedly exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby body parts. For eight years, much of Daleiden’s footage has been sealed and unseen until now.

In March of this year, Congress held a hearing on, “Investigating the Black Market of Baby Organ Harvesting,” which included footage subpoenaed from Daleiden’s Center for Medical Progress (CMP). In May, the San Francisco District Court ruled that CMP cannot be prevented from releasing the subpoenaed footage, and on July 30, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R- Ga., released full, unedited versions of the footage as an addendum to the congressional hearing.

The release of these new videos allows Daleiden to continue his journalistic work that began in 2015, uncovering Planned Parenthood’s alleged participation in fetal organ trafficking. His latest videos include alleged admissions from Planned Parenthood employees about their “financial incentives” and their own graphic descriptions about the process for procuring late-term fetuses to sell.

Harris is entirely a media-born creation on order from the Democrat Party. The press is doing its absolute best to prop her up, destroying what credibility they have left in the process. She is wholly artificial. She is a mask worn by people behind the scenes, just like Biden was. The only reason Harris is there is that she happened to be in the right place at the right time on multiple occasions. //

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I love it. Great line: "The Plastic Candidate!"

But I'm going to borrow from your idea a bit & hopefully improve upon it. Since Harris has talked about how much she hates petroleum & so-called fossil fuels, calling her a "Plastic Candidate" is probably a bit misleading since plastics are actually made from petroleum. So, Kamala Harris is actually "The Paper Straw Candidate." For all of the reasons you mentioned, Kamala Harris is totally fake. But even worse she disintegrates under pressure, just like one of those super annoying paper straws that are being forced on us more & more often. And just like a paper straw, Kamala is an even worse replacement for something that was already made of something fake. The left wants us to believe that we will like paper straws because they tell us that we'll like them. And they tell us that annoying paper straws will somehow single-handedly save the environment. That's just like Kamala on both counts: "You will like her, or else" & she will single-handedly save the environment from imminent disaster.

Popdaddy
30 minutes ago
It’s a good thing President Trump’s team has all of this archived for future use. They can’t erase Stolen Valor just by cleaning a website.
I noticed they have whitewashed Wikipedia by removing all references to this ass taking leave of his Minnesota National Guard position to teach in Red China, that contract had to be at least a year. No mention of getting married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre or honeymoon in Red China. Also no mention of his at least 30 trips to Red China.
There’s a serious problem with this guy, he shouldn’t get near classified information.

mopani Popdaddy
a few seconds ago
Do you think this might be the mystery reason he got the bid instead of Shapiro? Is Beijing Biden still earning his pay?

Mrs. deWinter Popdaddy
6 minutes ago
My husband had a security clearance for 40 years and he said last night that any of those trips to China would have been a hard NO on getting the clearance in the first place and he'd have been let go from his brand new job 40 years ago. That this guy could be the Vice-President is scary.