Kamala Harris Thread - Will she be the Democrat nominee?

[swordfish]

Maybe Trump is right - Walz may be worse than Harris.....

https://nypost.com/2024/08/19/us-news/tim-walz-commuted-the-life-sentence-of-a-teen-charged-with-killing-an-11-year-old-girl-since-then-hes-been-busted-twice/

CHICAGO — As Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrates on the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, a man whose murder sentence he commuted will face trial for additional crimes he’s accused of committing since the now-Democratic vice presidential nominee set him free early.

Myron Burrell was given a life murder sentence for the 2002 killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards, who was struck by a stray bullet while doing homework, but Walz voted to commute Burrell’s sentence when the governor was a member of the Minnesota Board of Pardons in 2020.

Burrell was 16 at the time of the shooting. Police said he shot Tyesha while attempting to hit a rival gang member.

Two years after his commutation, Burrell has been in and out of court hearings for two separate arrests. He was first arrested in 2023 for illegally possessing a gun and fifth-degree possession of controlled substance. 

Burrell, now 37, was arrested again in 2024 and received a separate charge of one count of fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance after police found evidence of a controlled substance in his car and a pill that tested for methamphetamine.

 

Burrell’s jury trial for his 2023 arrest begins in Hennepin County on Monday morning, according to court records reviewed by The Post.

Burrell was originally handed a life sentence by Amy Klobuchar, who was then a prosecutor. She pointed to the case as evidence of her tough-on-crime record during her political career as she rose to senator.

The case was brought to light again after Klobuchar ran for the presidency in 2020 and after the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement demanding police reform.

Burrell had maintained innocence in the case in the nearly two decades since he was convicted. In 2020, an Associated Press investigation also called the case into question after the outlet pointed out that there was no DNA, gun or fingerprints directly tying the case to Burrell.

Instead, the case relied on eyewitnesses and jailhouse informants who pointed to Burrell.

Ultimately, Burrell’s sentence was commuted to 20 years. Burrell had already served 18 years behind bars, and the remaining two years would be served outside prison with supervision, as proposed by Walz. It was the first time in 22 years that a murder case was commuted in the state.

Walz said at the time, “we cannot turn a blind eye to the developments in science and law as we look at this case.”

He also addressed the Edwards family: “We’re not here to relitigate the crime committed against your family that took your daughter away. There is nothing I can do to ease your pain, and it will not be made better. But we must act today to recognize the law in this area has changed. Justice is not served by incarcerating a child for his entire lifetime for a horrible mistake committed many years ago.”

Jimmie Edwards III, Tyesha’s brother, had spoken out in 2020 about how the commutation was hard for his family to hear for their mother.

“When she lost our sister, it took her away. She was never able to recover,” Edwards III said of his and Tyesha’s mother. “I’m glad my mom is not here to witness this, because it would just break her heart.”

The Harris-Walz campaign did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Post.

 

 

[Muda69]

Democrats Unburdened by What They Have Done to Chicago: https://reason.com/2024/08/19/democrats-unburdened-by-what-they-have-done-to-chicago/?itm_source=parsely-api

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A few hours before touching down in Chicago Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris, in one of her few interactions with reporters since snatching the Democratic Party's presidential nomination from her boss, gave a meandering yet revealing answer to the simple question of how she would pay for her recently introduced economic proposals.

"What we're doing in terms of the [first-time homebuyer] tax credits, we know that there's a great return on investment," Harris asserted in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. "When we increase home ownership in America, what that means in terms of increasing the tax base, not to mention property tax base, what that does to fund schools—again, return on investment. I think it's a mistake for any person who talks about public policy to not critically evaluate how you measure the return on investment. When you are strengthening neighborhoods, strengthening communities, and in particular the economies of those communities, and investing in a broad-based economy, everybody benefits, and it pays for itself in that way."

Italics added, to emphasize America's ongoing mistakes.

Democrats begin their four-day national convention Monday in the city that perhaps best exemplifies the chasm between their party's dreamy policy rhetoric and grim real-world results.

As a direct result of one-party misrule (there are zero Republicans on the 50-seat City Council), Chicago's tax base is decreasing, not increasing. The population has declined for nine consecutive years, is shrinking by an annual rate of 1 percent, and is at its lowest point in more than a century.

Illinois, where Democrats control the governorship and a two-thirds majority of the legislature, lost "an estimated $3.6 billion in income tax revenue in 2022 alone, a year the net loss of 87,000 residents subtracted $9.8 billion in adjusted gross income," syndicated columnist and Illinois native George Will observed last week. "In the past six years, $47.5 billion [adjusted gross income] has left….Illinois leads the nation in net losses of households making 200,000 or more."

None of these or other grisly Windy City stats—including the murders and the pension liabilities—are obscure. As Illinois Policy Institute Vice President Austin Berg put it Saturday night at a live taping of the Fifth Column podcast, "I believe Chicago is the greatest American city, and the worst-governed American city."

The bigger mystery has been why the Democratic Party would choose such a metaphorically dicey backdrop. But an answer begins to suggest itself amid the banal dystopia of the DNC's endless security checkpoints, concrete barriers, and battalions of police officers separating America's political class from its serfs. Democrats chose Chicago for a similar reason that Harris chose a running mate with a particularly awful record during the pandemic- and riot-scarred year of 2020: Because they, like their candidate, know that, contra Harris' assertion Sunday in Pennsylvania, the people who talk about policy—whether politician, journalist, or political consumer—almost never "critically evaluate how you measure the return on investment."

If professional political conversation was tethered even loosely to policy results, you might expect one or maybe even two of the journalists dutifully collecting their DNC press credentials at the colossal (and colossally empty) McCormick Place convention center to ask a follow-up question about what their eyeballs cannot miss. How in the world can a city in terminal financial crisis not just support the country's largest convention-center complex during a time of market oversupply and conventioneering decline, but actually keep expanding the damn thing?

The DNC's second major site (behind the United Center, which is hosting what you watch on television), "has been a political money pit for nearly 60 years," Berg wrote in 2019. Built in 1960, rebuilt after a 1967 fire, then expanded in 1986, 1997, 2007, and 2017, McCormick Place looks this week like the cover of a Mike Davis book—extensive security barricades and fencing separating the nearby poors from a depopulated, dully corporate expanse.

"Over and over, Chicago and Illinois public officials and a roster of consultants promised that a bigger McCormick Place would yield hundreds of thousands of new convention attendees and billions in new spending and public revenues," Heywood Sanders wrote in his 2014 book Convention Center Follies. "Those repeated promises have proved false, the consultant projections unmet."

Instead, like so many other Chicago governance failures, the unmet promises are covered over with taxes—on hotel room stays, restaurants, car rentals. In completely related news, a 2024 Wallet Hub study of effective state/local tax burden per median U.S. household income ranked Illinois dead last.

But the 2024 campaign is famously more about "vibes" than anything related to governance. The Harris/Walz campaign website still does not have a policy page (though the party did on Sunday release a draft platform). "I have not had a single constituent in El Paso or a single person on the road try to get very specific policy details from me," Harris campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar (D–Texas) told The New York Times. You're going to have to vote for a Harris administration to see what's in it.

Republican nominee Donald Trump famously did not even update the 2016 GOP platform when he ran unsuccessfully in 2020, suggesting that America has a supply problem when it comes to national politicians and policy accountability.

But don't sleep on demand. Trump fans love his boorish, bizarre, and often funny jokes, so he keeps making cracks about Kamala Harris' looks and Montana Sen. John Tester's fat stomach rather than stay as focused on issues as his advisors would prefer. Harris is getting cheered on by a subset of journalists for not subjecting herself to any kind of public cross-examination. And the residents of Chicago, looking upon both the civic dysfunction and the city's undeniable energy and charm, just keep on voting for more Democrats.

Americans may be getting precisely what they want out of politics in 2024. Good and hard.

Yep, Americans will get more of the same from the uni-party. More debt, more war, more corruption. Regardless of whether Harris or Trump are victorious in November.

  

[Muda69]

Democrats Just Can't Quit Saving Our Souls: https://reason.com/2024/08/20/democrats-just-cant-quit-saving-our-souls/

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Say what you will about the otherwise calorie-lite first fortnight of the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign, at least it eased for a moment the shrill catastrophizing that has marked Democratic messaging against former President Donald Trump over these past nine years.

"Gone are [President Joe] Biden's sober exhortations about the battle for the soul of the nation and a democracy under attack," The Washington Post observed earlier this month. "In its place are promises of 'freedom' and 'a brighter future' and, at times, audible giggles and laughter."

Well, the darkness came back with a vengeance in Chicago during Monday's opening night of the Democratic National Convention. Staged as a somewhat awkward and late-running "Thank you Joe" celebration, Day One demonstrated that the party remains in thrall both to the millenarian temptation and its flip side of messianic zeal.

"We're facing inflection point, one of those rare moments in history when the decisions we make now will determine the fate of our nation and the world for decades to come," Biden barked, familiarly. "That's not hyperbole. I mean it literally. We're in a battle for the very soul of America."

As puzzling as it may seem to those scores of millions of us who never once voted for the man during his half-century in elected office, we heard serial testimonials during Biden's valedictory night about the president's soulcraft. "He has brought us together, and revived our country, and our country's soul," Convention Chair Minyon Moore claimed, improbably. Sen. Chris Coons (D–Del.) extolled the president's "determination to heal the soul of our nation." Daughter Ashley reassured us that "He never stops thinking about you."

If only these sentiments were merely the good-natured embellishments of retirement banquets. Democrats, as they did massively for former President Barack Obama and are already cranking up for Harris and Walz, positioned Biden as a benevolent, borderline omniscient parental figure, ennobling citizens with meaning through the munificence of their gaze.

"They saw us, they fought for us, they heard us," Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said of Biden and Harris. The 2024 ticket, Harrison continued, "will invest in our hopes, and our dreams, and our futures." Hillary Clinton posited that "We're not just electing a president. We are uplifting our nation." California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis testified of the Democratic nominee that "She cares. She cares so much that if you are lucky enough to be her friend, she called you on her birthday, and sometimes she sings to you."

It was only the Democrats' miserable show-running organization that prevented Biden from being serenaded by James Taylor with a rendition of "You've Got a Friend," a song he also performed for Obama at the 2012 Democratic convention, and that Carole King dedicated to both Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016. These politicians seeking access to the nuclear codes are not some distant, calculating power-seekers, but rather neighborly types who just want to lend a hand!

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D–Ga.), a Baptist pastor, was the most effective at tying together the Democratic strands of millenarianism and messianism. After busting Trump's chops for hawking Bibles ("he should try reading it"), and alleging that the GOP nominee "is a clear and present threat to the precious covenant we share with one another," Warnock reached for the stars.

"I'm convinced tonight that we can lift the broken even as we climb," he said. "I'm convinced tonight that we can heal sick bodies. We can heal the wounds that divide us. We can heal a planet in peril, we can heal the land."

George Will produced a memorably relevant metaphor in the 2014 Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. "The presidency," Will mused, "is like a soft leather glove, and it takes the shape of the hand that's put into it. And when a very big hand is put into it and stretches the glove—stretches the office—the glove never quite shrinks back to what it was. So we are all living today with an office enlarged permanently by Franklin Roosevelt."

So too goes the stretching of presidential speechcraft. Obama, with significantly more charisma than Biden or Harris could ever muster, expanded the modern rhetorical template with his 2008 convention speech, delivered against a backdrop of Greek columns in a 76,000-seat stadium, that climaxed with this rapturously hubristic close:

I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. This was the moment when we ended a war, and secured our nation, and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.

Just prior to Obama's rise, Gene Healy warned us about executive branch omnipotence in his terrific book (and Reason cover story) The Cult of the Presidency. "The chief executive of the United States," Healy wrote, "is no longer a mere constitutional officer charged with faithful execution of the laws. He is a soul nourisher, a hope giver, a living American talisman against hurricanes, terrorism, economic downturns, and spiritual malaise. He 'or she' is the one who answers the phone at 3 a.m. to keep our children safe from harm. The modern president is America's shrink, a social worker, our very own national talk show host. He's also the Supreme Warlord of the Earth."

Obama's successor Trump, after having campaigned on a Great Man Theory of politics, continued the modern tradition of playing overpromiser in chief. "Dying industries will come roaring back to life," he predicted in his 2017 speech in front of a Joint Session of Congress. "Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our very, very beautiful land. Our terrible drug epidemic will slow down and ultimately stop. And our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety and opportunity." Or not.

As Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward remarked at the time, "This weirdly grandiose rhetoric is a reflection of a weirdly grandiose bipartisan conception of the powers of the president….Presidents do not make the earth move. They do not turn back tides. They do not heal the sick, or eliminate vice, or remake the nation. They are humans with human failings, and one of those failings is the inability to resist taking a big slurp of their own Kool-Aid in moments of triumph."

Investing our very souls into the fortunes of politicians is not the habit of a healthy civic culture. The people who compete for the right to control $7 trillion of money extracted from taxpayers upon threat of imprisonment are not your friends. The executives who sit atop the Justice Department, who have control over history's most powerful military, are not responsible for your hopes, your dreams, your healing. Imbuing elected officials with such spiritual potency is a recipe for self-infantilization, disappointment, and terrible executive-branch governance.

Presidential candidates will only stop promising to heal our souls when we stop asking them to. The long, slow climb out of our national sump hole requires not only that we treat pompous pols with the derision they deserve, but that we stop pouring our own aspirations into the career prospects of the politically ambitious.

Democrats will spend these next three days scaring voters both about Trump's legitimately scary behavior, and such Potemkin threats as Project 2025 (or as Sen. Jim Clyburn (D–S.C.) called it last night, "Jim Crow 2.0"). Such darkness is the regrettably typical stuff of politics, on both sides. It's when they imagineer a government headed by Kamala Harris to be an agent of spiritual healing that you should really reach for the gong.

 

[Muda69]

Kamala Harris Is Not a Radical Communist, but That Makes Her Even More Dangerous: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kamala-harris-not-radical-communist-makes-her-even-more-dangerous

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Lately, Donald Trump and his team have taken to labeling their opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, as a far-left socialist—even a full-on communist. The strategy comes after an uncharacteristic lull in messaging from the former president and his team as they worked out how to prudently attack the vice president.

It’s the job of a presidential campaign to make people terrified about what’s in store for the country if the other side were to win. But there are several problems with labeling Kamala Harris a communist.”

First, strategically, this approach risks taking steam out of the best parts of the Trump movement. As Dave Smith argued on Part of the Problem last week, much of Trump’s appeal has come from his opposition to the political establishment. By framing Harris as an extremist, Trump is implicitly placing his campaign on the side of the status quo.

But beyond being a bad campaign strategy, the claim that Harris is a radical communist is just not true. And that’s important for her critics to understand because the threat she poses is actually far more dangerous.

Before continuing with what could easily be derailed into a semantics debate, it’s important to define some terms.

Socialism is an economic system where private property has been abolished as it relates to the production of goods and services. All production decisions are determined by the commands of state or cooperative managers in a non-market environment—meaning without prices.

Communism is a more extreme form of socialism where private property, hierarchy, and social class are abolished in all parts of life. While parts of a mixed economy can and do have socialist qualities, communism is a totalitarian system that encompasses everything.

Neither of these terms describe the current political-economic system of the United States. We live under what can better be called interventionism.

Interventionism is a system where a small political class uses government interventions in a market economy to coercively transfer wealth into their own pockets. As Ludwig von Mises detailed in a number of his books and essays, interventionism inevitably moves towards socialism as the predictably bad consequences of interventions are used to justify more interventions, leading to more and more government control over the economy.

But while the politicians, bureaucrats, and politically-connected business leaders who make up the political class often rely on socialist rhetoric and Marxist academics to justify their next interventions, it is not in their interest to jump straight to a full-on socialist economy. There is too much money to be made along the way, and they want their coercively extracted profits to remain private.

Kamala Harris is an interventionist. She is fully committed to the big scam at the center of the political system and economy. That’s what makes her so dangerous.

While communism itself is far worse than the interventionist system we are dealing with today, having a communist in the Oval Office, at the ostensible helm of a government committed to interventionism, would not turn America into a communist country.

As has been made clear by the cognitive decline of Joe Biden while he remains in the White House, the actual position of president is essentially a figurehead. Presidents do have power — which is why elections are still important. But, as we saw in the first Trump term, it is practically impossible for presidents to implement sweeping changes to which the rest of the political class stands in total opposition. The federal bureaucracy has shown that they’re willing and able to quietly quash executive orders they disagree with.

A literal communist in the Oval Office would be fairly limited in what they could accomplish. Today’s political class would never rally behind the policies a communist president would be most inclined to pursue—such as breaking up the biggest companies and handing full control over to the workers. The heads of big banks, weapons companies, and tech giants and their friends in the government would make sure such an order or bill never saw the light of day. An ideologically-committed communist would also have principles that they’d be unwilling to compromise on—further minimizing the damage they could do to the country.

Not only does Kamala Harris not have principles, she is also fully onboard with the interventionist racket the political class is pulling on the rest of us. The executive orders and legislation that she pursues will assuredly accelerate the interventionist downward spiral. But they will also be lucrative for the rest of the political class—meaning they are far more likely to come to fruition than anything a communist would strive for.

By trying to characterize Harris as a radical, far-left communist, Trump and his team are not only implicitly taking the side of the very people their campaign should be directed against, they’re also misleading his supporters on the nature of the problem facing our country. If the political establishment is ever going to be defeated, it must first be understood.

 

[swordfish]

“Amy Klobuchar introduces Timothy Walz as a coach who ‘turned’ a team ‘into state champions,’” one person said in a post on X. “He was NEVER a head coach. He didn’t ‘turn’ anyone into state champions.” 

Walz was a faculty member at Mankato from 1996 to 2006. During that time, he served as the Scarlets linebackers coach and defensive coordinator until 2002. Under head coach Rick Sutton, the school won its first state championship in 1999. 

So there's that "coach title grabbing" in addition to the "stolen valor" episode - but SF is wondering about the 1995 DUI arrest that is downplayed as something less than "reckless driving" https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/politics/tim-walz-2006-campaign-falsely-described-dwi-kfile/index.html and wondering whether there was ever a connection made between the Mankato school system allowing a teacher with a DUI record to coach and potentially transport students?

https://nypost.com/2024/08/22/us-news/coach-tim-walz-called-out-after-ex-players-hit-dnc-stage/

Former members of the Mankato West High School football team took center stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night in support of their former coach, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as he formally accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president.

However, social media stirred over the reference to Walz as a football coach who turned a losing team into state champions.

“In Minnesota, we trust a coach who turned a team that was 0-27 into state champions,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said in her speech on the third night of the DNC.

Ben Ingman, one of Walz’s former students, who said the governor also coached him in seventh-grade basketball and track at Mankato, echoed that sentiment.

“Coach Walz got us excited about what we might achieve together. He believed in us, and he helped us believe in each other. And his leadership stuck. That track team went on to win a state title, just like the football team.”

Several players then took the stage in pep rally-style fashion, eliciting cheers from the crowd as the school’s fight song played in the background.

However, some on social media couldn’t help but point out that Walz only served as an assistant coach while at Mankato. 

“Amy Klobuchar introduces Timothy Walz as a coach who ‘turned’ a team ‘into state champions,’” one person said in a post on X. “He was NEVER a head coach. He didn’t ‘turn’ anyone into state champions.” 

“Still really, really confused about why they keep pushing the ‘Coach Walz’ thing from a million years ago when Tim Walz was a volunteer assistant coach…why not focus on his Governorship…?…no…they just want to focus on Coach Walz…it’s strange,” another person wrote. 

Walz was a faculty member at Mankato from 1996 to 2006. During that time, he served as the Scarlets linebackers coach and defensive coordinator until 2002. Under head coach Rick Sutton, the school won its first state championship in 1999. 

[temptation]

I coached high school football…

No, you didn’t.

My wife and I had to conceive via IVF.

No, you didn’t.

I served my country and walked the front lines…

No, you didn’t.

Donald Trump sucks!

Standing ovation.

My favorite part of the DNC is the constant talk about how adults are in the White House now and how they have always been above Trump’s childish insults.

Then they spend 4 days at their convention, have no policies to speak on and then spend all of their time insulting Trump.

Its one big long professional wrestling promo.

Edited August 22 by temptation

[Muda69]

15 hours ago, temptation said:

I coached high school football…

No, you didn’t.

 

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/21/was-tim-walz-a-good-football-coach/74896792007/

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/tim-walz-football-coaching-career-timeline-minnesota-mankato-west/0e815b44ddc6428665fd317a

So this reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Sporting News (and numerous other sources) is a lie? 

I really don't care for any uni-party candidate, including Mr. Walz,  but do you have proof he never coached football at a high school?

 

 

[BTF]

40 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/21/was-tim-walz-a-good-football-coach/74896792007/

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/tim-walz-football-coaching-career-timeline-minnesota-mankato-west/0e815b44ddc6428665fd317a

So this reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Sporting News (and numerous other sources) is a lie? 

I really don't care for any uni-party candidate, including Mr. Walz,  but do you have proof he never coached football at a high school?

 

 

Didn't he say "I" built a championship team? I'm pretty sure there wasn't a "we" in there. As a coordinator, he played a pretty big role and is probably a good coach. I don't like the word "I", but if anyone as the right to use it, it's the head coach. Once again, he's deceiving people into believing things about him that he is not. It's almost like he doesn't like himself and has to make things up. 

[Muda69]

6 minutes ago, BTF said:

Didn't he say "I" built a championship team? 

I don't know. Did he?

I was just responding to your statement, which appears to say that the Mr. Walz stated "I coached high school football…". Which according to multiple sources appears to be a true statement.

 

[BTF]

31 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

I don't know. Did he?

I was just responding to your statement, which appears to say that the Mr. Walz stated "I coached high school football…". Which according to multiple sources appears to be a true statement.

 

He stated that "he" built a state championship team. Not "we", but he. He wasn't even the head coach. "I" is an awful word when you are part of something larger. Most HEAD football coaches wouldn't dare use the word "I", let along a defensive coordinator. I have no doubt that he coached high school football. I have no doubt that he was a good coordinator. But the way he said it completely dismisses the head coach and a the players who got the job done. 

[Muda69]

7 minutes ago, BTF said:

He stated that "he" built a state championship team. Not "we", but he. He wasn't even the head coach. "I" is an awful word when you are part of something larger. Most HEAD football coaches wouldn't dare use the word "I", let along a defensive coordinator.

Got it.  Thank you for the clarification.

And I'm sure those on the other side of the uni-party coin have never said anything of the sort as well.

All politicians lie and mischaracterize.  It's part of the job.

Edited August 23 by Muda69

[BTF]

37 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Got it.  Thank you for the clarification.

And I'm sure those on the other side of the uni-party coin have never said anything of the sort as well.

All politicians lie and mischaracterize.  It's part of the job.

Yeah, but you have to admit, this guy takes the cake. 

[Muda69]

3 minutes ago, BTF said:

Yeah, but you have to admit, this guy takes the cake. 

Meh, I've seen comparable political liars over the years. 

 

[temptation]

4 hours ago, Muda69 said:

Meh, I've seen comparable political liars over the years. 

 

Ever seen one who instructs his police force to shoot paint balls at folks hanging out on their front porches?

I hadn't.

[Muda69]

9 minutes ago, temptation said:

Ever seen one who instructs his police force to shoot paint balls at folks hanging out on their front porches?

I hadn't.

Mr. Walz did this?  Do you have a link?

A liar is a liar is a liar.

 

[BTF]

23 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Mr. Walz did this?  Do you have a link?

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-ndSX8Oj6W/

[BTF]

This guy continues to rise up the "clown" meter. Anyone who votes Harris/Walz should be committed into a mental health institution. Probably a good thing I'm not a dictator. 

[temptation]

27 minutes ago, BTF said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-ndSX8Oj6W/

The best part about this entire thing is the fact check that it was during the Floyd protests and not necessarily related to Covid lockdowns…

As if that makes it any better.

[BTF]

13 minutes ago, temptation said:

The best part about this entire thing is the fact check that it was during the Floyd protests and not necessarily related to Covid lockdowns…

As if that makes it any better.

Regardless, you can't shoot people with paintballs for sitting on their front porch. Walz is a circus clown at best..........on a good day. 

[Muda69]

Emotional Support Governor.

 

[swordfish]

[Muda69]

[swordfish]

Should be kinda worrisome when your running-mate's family members aren't backing the guy........

https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/us-news/tim-walzs-family-members-go-viral-as-they-allegedly-turn-against-him-pose-in-walzs-for-trump-shirts/

 

 

[Muda69]

22 hours ago, swordfish said:

Should be kinda worrisome when your running-mate's family members aren't backing the guy........

https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/us-news/tim-walzs-family-members-go-viral-as-they-allegedly-turn-against-him-pose-in-walzs-for-trump-shirts/

 

 

Too bad they are still voting for the uni-party................

 

[Muda69]

Kamalanomics: More Inflation for America: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kamalanomics-more-inflation-america

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In a recent interview with CNN, Kamala Harris said that Bidenomics is working and that she is “proud of bringing inflation down.”

However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published the latest CPI at 2.9%, despite annual inflation being 1.4% when she took office. Inflation is a disguised tax and accumulated inflation since January 2021, when the Biden-Harris administration started, has increased more than 20%.

Of course, Democrats blame inflation on the war, the pandemic, and the science-fantasy concept of “supply chain disruptions.” No one believed it, because most commodities have declined and supply tensions disappeared back to normality, but prices continued to rise.

As a result, Harris invented the concept of greedy grocery stores and evil corporations to blame for inflation and justify price controls. Is it not ironic? She blames grocery stores and corporations for inflation, but when price inflation drops, she proudly takes credit.

The reality is that the Kamala Harris plan, like all interventionist governments, creates and strives for inflation. Inflation is a hidden tax. Governments love it and perpetuate it by printing money through deficit spending and imposing regulations that harm trade, competition, and technological creative destruction. Big government is big inflation.

Inflation is the way in which the government tricks citizens into believing that administrations can provide for anything. It disguises the accumulated debt, quietly transfers wealth from the private sector to the government and condemns citizens to being dependent hostages of government subsidies. It is the only way in which they can continue to spend a constantly depreciated currency and present themselves as the solution. Furthermore, it is the perfect excuse to blame businesses and anyone else who sells in the currency that the government creates.

Kamala Harris will do nothing to cut inflation because she wants inflation to disguise the monster deficit and debt accumulation. In the latest figures, the deficit has soared to $1.5 trillion in the first ten months of the fiscal year. Public debt has soared to $35 trillion, and in the administration’s own forecasts, they will add a $16.3 trillion deficit from 2025 to 2034. It is worse. The previously mentioned figure does not include the $2 trillion in additional debt coming from Kamala’s economic plan.

Harris is aware that her proposals to impose an unrealized capital gains tax, an economic aberration, and other tax hikes will not generate the $2 trillion in additional taxes she seeks. So, she needs the Fed to monetize as much as possible, eroding the US dollar’s purchasing power and making all Americans poorer in the process, only to blame corporations and grocery stores later. Furthermore, it is a way to present the government as the solution to the problem they create, promising the lunacy of price controls and enormous subsidies in a constantly depreciated currency.

It is a perfect plan to nationalize the economy in the style of Peronist socialism in Argentina.

Increase spending, deficits, and debt, making the size of government larger on the way in. Monetize as much debt as possible and cut rates to make it easier for the bankrupt government to borrow. When deficits balloon and inflation soars, increase taxes to the private sector and hike rates, which increases further the size of government in the economy. And you blame corporations?

Governments do not reduce prices. Governments create and perpetuate inflation by printing currency that loses value every year.

Corporations, landlords, and grocery stores do not create or increase inflation; they reduce it through competition and efficiency. Even if all corporations, grocery stores, and landlords were evil and stupid at the same time, they would not make aggregate prices rise and consolidate a constant trend of increases. For the same quantity of money, even a monopoly would not be able to increase aggregate prices. The only one that can make aggregate prices rise, consolidate, and continue increasing, although at a slower pace, is the government issuing and printing more currency than the private sector demands.

By admitting that the deficit will soar by $16.3 trillion in ten years in a budget that expects record revenues, no recession, and continued employment growth, the Harris team is conceding that they will strive for inflation to dilute the currency in which that debt is issued… and make you poorer.

Interventionists argue that the government does not have a budget constraint, only an inflation constraint, and can always tax the excess money in the system. Beautiful. This implies an increase in the size of the government during periods of economic expansion and further government expansion during periods of perceived normalcy. The government receives an enormous transfer of wealth from the productive sector, resulting in the creation of a dependent citizen class.

High taxes are not a tool to reduce debt. High debt and high taxes are tools to confiscate the productive sector’s wealth and create a subclass of dependent citizens.

Socialism redistributes middle-class wealth to bureaucrats, not rich to poor.

Massive government spending, constantly increasing taxes, and printing money. A plan to reduce the economy to serfdom.

Harris’ economic plan is not aiming to reduce inflation but to perpetuate it. Indeed, this economic policy mirrors Argentina’s 21st-century socialism, and it threatens the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. The government does not determine the level of confidence in a currency. When confidence in a currency declines, it does so quickly. Saying it will not happen in the US because it has not occurred yet is the equivalent of driving at 200mph and saying, “We have not killed ourselves yet; accelerate.”