Kim Strassel: the GOP needs to be engaged in a whole-of-election message reminding Americans of the ugly Biden policies of past and present, and Kamala’s promise to carry them into the future

 The libertarian-inclined in the GOP want the message restricted more or less to the economy, inflation, immigration, and crime.

Biden: Forgotten But Not Gone

Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

 

Strassel points out Biden is continuing or proposing the following to help cement support for Harris on the left:

Student loan giveaways

Nationwide rent controls

A plea deal for the 9/11 terrorists

$2.2 billion for farmers, ranchers, and owners of forest land who experienced discrimination

Million$ in new grants for women's health, state climate programs, tribal fisheries, youth skills programs

Signage everywhere thanking Biden's infrastructure law for road improvements

New rules protecting workers from heat

New prevailing wage rules for clean energy workers

New chemical and air toxin crackdowns

New regulations for wildlife refuges

New regulations on offshore drilling

Higher efficiency standards for commercial equipment and residential boilers

A crackdown on so-called junk fees for extras like family-seating on flights.

 

Polling has shown inflation and illegal immigration have been the top issues, which of course doesn't mean other things can't be issues.

 

Strassel doesn't seem to get that the green energy war on fossils fuels is the top problem for the economy, driving up the cost of everything, while the massive illegal immigration feeds competition for the housing no one can afford anyway, not to mention crime up and wages down for the bottom half of the country. 

 

And of course, the Trump tax reform disappears if Harris is elected, among other horribles. 

Stephen L. Miller says the world wakes up to men competing against women in sports, Donald Trump promises to end it

Libertarian Justin Amash is hoping the Hamas vote in Michigan will cross over and help him in his quixotic quest to upset Republican favorite Mike Rogers in the Aug 6 open primary

 “In a matchup with Democratic frontrunner and former CIA analyst Elissa Slotkin, I’m uniquely positioned to win votes from liberals, progressives, and independents — and Michigan’s sizable Arab American community — who are repulsed by Slotkin’s commitment to endless wars, unconstitutional spying, and weaponized government.”

Justin Amash, quoted here. 

Democrat Elissa Slotkin is Jewish.

"many of his key positions align with the left"

Kamala Harris is African American now lol

 

Next to Whites, employment level increases 2021-2023 have gone mostly to the foreign-born, well ahead of America's Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians

White:                 7.825 million

Foreign born:      5.124 million

Hispanic/Latino: 4.390 million

Black/African American: 2.802 million

Asian:                  1.658 million

 

All figures are from the not-seasonally-adjusted data sets.

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, July 2, 2024:

 

Unprecedented U.S. immigration surge boosts job growth, output:

 

The current U.S. immigration surge is unprecedented. ... Recently released 2023 data on immigrant work permits cast doubt on the lower [US Census Bureau and Social Security Administration] immigration estimates in Chart 1 and are broadly supportive of CBO’s higher numbers. ... household survey data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) are consistent with CBO estimates of immigration in 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

Border Czar Kamala Harris broke the immigration system and let in 8 million illegal aliens

 

Just like a majority of Americans, Israel doesn't trust the Harris administration either lol

 

Four things she ran on which Kamala Harris says she no longer supports for some reason: Medicare for All, A Fracking Ban, Border Funding Reductions, Mandatory Firearm Buybacks

What could the reason be lol?

 

 

Trump ups the ante with Democrats, proposes eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits paid by senior citizens, which about 40% of them now do, contrary to the original intention of the reforms in 1983

 

 About 40% of people who get Social Security must pay federal income taxes on their benefits.

More.

As originally intended in the 1983 reforms, taxes were designed to affect just 10% of recipients:

By the time the law was first amended in 1993, about 18% of Social Security beneficiaries had some tax liability (compared to about 10% when the law was originally enacted).

Meanwhile, back in the everyday world of what's for breakfast this summer, let's talk about eggs

 In June 2019 a dozen eggs averaged $1.20 vs. $2.72 now . . . up 127%.

In other words, the price has more than doubled in five years.

Yesterday I paid $3.39 at my local grocery, for one of the last two cartons available. The place was cleaned out!

I save 50 cents on a dozen there, if I remember to download their coupon. But that's still $2.89/dozen, not $2.72.

Sam's Club's equivalent is $2.19/dozen . . . but they're . . . ALL OUT. 

So I pay a fat membership fee at Sam's for the privilege of paying 83% more for eggs than I did in 2019.

But not this week.

This illustrates why half of the country, which makes less than $41,000 per year, is still PISSED.

Biden's radical, Supreme-Court-packing, power-grabbing proposals sound like somebody else entirely wrote them, because he once opposed them all quite publicly and vehemently

Is Biden another "Body Snatchers" president? 

 

Speaker of the House Johnson says Biden's Supreme Court proposals are DOA in the House, President Biden says the Speaker is DOA

The Party of Violence, ladies and gentlemen.

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was on July 13th.

If Republicans talked this way about Democrats it would be non-stop news.

"One law for me, another for thee".

 

 

Democrats: J. D. Vance is weird

 

Oh gee, what a surprise, Kamala Harris has a radical black anti-American, anti-semitic pastor named Amos Brown, just like Barack Obama had Jeremiah Wright

The guy's so bad Senator Diane Feinstein walked out on him, as did Governor Gray Davis, both Democrats:

At a memorial service for victims of the 9/11 terror attacks held just six days after al Qaeda murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, Brown used the occasion to point the finger at the United States in remarks that, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, "set a lot of people’s teeth on edge" and "left politicians stunned."

"America, is there anything you did to set up this climate?" Brown asked the audience. "Ohhhh—America, what did you do?"

"America, what did you do two weeks ago when I stood at the world conference on racism, when you wouldn't show up?" Brown continued, referring to his participation in the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, which the United States and Israel boycotted citing concerns about anti-Semitism.

Brown’s diatribe jarred a mostly liberal audience, the Chronicle reported, noting that the late California senator Dianne Feinstein (D.) and former California governor Gray Davis (D.) left during his remarks. ...

Brown’s radical politics have also veered into anti-Semitism. He served as a delegate to the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, and best known for equating Zionism with racism. The United States and Israel walked out of the conference over that resolution, expressing dismay that a conference ostensibly devoted to combating hatred had devolved into a hate fest. ...

He serves on the California Reparations Task Force and has called for cash payments to the descendants of slaves from "billionaires in San Francisco," according to the New York Times.  The pastor held a "Solidarity for Reparations" event at his church in 2022 and told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2021 that "America is a racist country." ...

He has visited Harris at the White House at least twice and told Religion News Service this week Harris remains a "dues-paying member" of his church. "For two decades now, at least, I have turned to you," Harris said of Brown in her remarks to the National Baptist Convention 2022.

The story is here.

Canadian pollster no one ever heard of headlines Drudge lol

 https://angusreid.org/game-change-invigorated-young-democrats-give-harris-slight-lead-over-trump/

 

Democrats still excelling at white-identity politics after all these years lol: White Women for Harris raised ~$11 million, White Dudes for Harris . . . not so much

"Only we get to be racist".

 

Imagine the firestorm over "White Dudes for Trump".

 

‘White Dudes for Harris’ raise $4 million for Democrat’s campaign against Trump

 

This story wants you to know lol: 

Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, are both white.

Meanwhile . . .

Grassroots organizers raise millions online for Harris in first week

The back-to-back calls motivated activist and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts to follow suit. She organized a group, dubbed "White Women: Answer the Call." The impromptu effort, sparked by a 5 a.m. X post last Tuesday, broke a record for the largest Zoom call in history. It crashed the site with nearly 200,000 women and raised more than $11 million. ... 

"I am here tonight embracing myself, in your incredible, profound white women midst, because we got a f***ing job to do y'all," said actress Connie Britton on the call. 

 

 

 

The global total fertility rate has fallen to 2.25, just above the 2.1 rate considered replacement level for developed countries, because the world has grown wealthier

 

I don't know why it shocks some people that as people get wealthier they have fewer children, but it does.

 

Global tfr is down 53% since 1950 to 2.25 in 2023 as global gdp per capita is up 80% since 1990.

 

The developed world (just 17%) replacement rate is 2.1 vs. ~1.47 actual tfr.

 

 

 

That's all

 

Swap to Harris About Preventing Dem Down Ballot Collapse

Mollie Hemingway, FNS

 

It's about re-energizing its unhappy, loony base so they don't lose everything:

 

The Thrill of Taking a Risk on Harris

Rebecca Traister, New York Magazine

 

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper

Trend for peak performance

 

1950: 24.0%

1959: 16.6% (9 years)

1984: 11.3% (25 years)

1997:  7.8% (13 years)

2010:  6.3% (13 years)

2021:  4.7% (11 years)

Democrats' biggest problem is loss of trust: 73% of independents believe Kamala Harris was central to the cover-up of Joe Biden's deteriorating faculties

 According to a YouGov/Times of London poll of 1,170 registered voters . . . Overall, 68% say she had ample knowledge of Biden’s deterioration, with 78% of Republicans, 73% of independents, and 82% of self-identified conservatives believing the VP was central to the coverup . . . A staggering 92% of respondents who believe there was a coverup think Harris knew at least a little bit about the president’s progressive deterioration . . ..

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