Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Monday, August 19, 2024
Maureen Dowd of The New York Times: Joe Biden was pushed out by Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and Jeffries, and their handprints are on his back, and Trump will still win
It was a jaw-dropping putsch, she says, a coup even.
Pelosi knifed her pal, she says.
Obama has now sidelined Joe Biden twice, she says.
Everyone's mad at one another at the DNC in Chicago, she says.
"Top Democrats are bristling with resentment".
Read it at The Irish Times.
Democrats profiting off the little guy: Corporate profits at 12% under Bidenflation have been much better than under Trump at 4%
The dirty little secret about corporate profits: they've been much better after 13 quarters of Biden than they were after 16 quarters of Trump, averaging 4.14% yoy under Trump and 12.13% under Biden.
This is a great little arrangement between Democrats and big business. Democrat-aligned business makes off with your cash while politicians pretend to do something about it in exchange for campaign contributions, with the important benefit that inflation inflates away the cost of their spendthrift deficit spending.
The so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which did no such thing and Democrats said would cost nothing, is estimated to cost the taxpayers nearly $800 billion by 2031 according to the liberal Brookings Institution.
This is your fascist America.
Shielding price increases by blaming them on inflation has been the modus operandi of the period. Price gouging is real, but gimmicks which address only symptoms won't solve the problem, which is caused by increasing the money supply and deliberately increasing other costs as a matter of policy, like energy and regulation, which businesses also can plausibly blame.
But Harris knows the demagogic value of running against price gouging.
Price controls poll particularly well. You can fool most of the people most of the time.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Kamala Harris' crime
Kamala Harris' crime was failure to inform the American people of Joe Biden's mental incapacity, and to invoke the 25th Amendment with the pledge that she would not run for president.
Once again the Constitution is shown to be a worthless barrier of parchment, whose only power to maintain freedom comes from those who assent to it and enforce it. The former is meaningless without the latter.
Invoked a year ago, her candidacy by approbation today would have legitimacy. As it is, it does not.
Instead she kept silent until just the right moment, in order to grasp the ring presented to her by a political party which cared nothing for the primary votes of millions of Joe Biden's supporters.
Democracy has been murdered in broad daylight by Democrats, and y'all just stand by and film it.
She is a usurper, a power hungry snake, without an ounce of integrity.
You will rue the day you elect her president.
O baseness to support a tyrant throne,
And crush your freeborn brethren of the world!
Nay, to become a part of usurpation,
T' espouse the tyrant's person and her crimes.
-- John Dryden
Inflation is over, gold hits new high lol
CNN: The war on inflation has been won. It’s OK if you’re still angry
The headline inflation reading falling below 3% for the first time since 2021 is incredible.
CNBC: Gold rallies to record high on softer dollar, rate-cut expectations
Spot gold was up 1.5% to $2,493.66 per ounce after hitting a record high of $2,500.99 earlier. U.S. gold futures rose 1.6% to $2,532.10. Bullion has risen 2.6% this week.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Real Clear Politics' No Toss-Ups Map moves AZ to Harris, Trump Electoral College lead shrinks again: 276-262
Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona have all shifted to DEM in the polling averages since Biden endorsed Harris on July 21st.
Here.
Apparently The Washington Post is trying to make itself look reasonable with actual journalism because it lost $77 million last year?
I mean, they predicted a $100 million loss, so it wasn't THAT bad, right?
Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for WaPo in 2013.
But I don't think $77 million really matters to Jeff Bezos.
Sum ting else wong.
Just listen to this from Kamala Harris on September 6, 2019, how she relishes the POWer to ruin someone's life with the stroke of a pen, and that Donald Trump doesn't understand what it means to have that power like she does
Here.
If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what does. Democrats rejected her candidacy in 2019, maybe because they perceived a General.
The clip doesn't include the comment about Trump.
See C-SPAN here starting at the 18:00 mark or so for the full context.
Another salvo at Kamala Harris: WaPo editorial board calls her anti-big business proposals populist gimmicks, says her first-time home buyer $25,000 down-payment plan will increase housing prices
The whole thing makes sense, which is surprising coming as it does from The Washington Post, which ends this way:
[Even] her [good] ideas would cost money, yet she insisted in her speech that she would hold to President Joe Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on any household earning $400,000 or less annually. That excludes 80 percent of taxable income, and does not take into account the recent surge in families earning over $400,000. The Harris campaign says it plans to raise revenue to cover these costs but did not provide specific offsets in its economic plan rollout. Without them, Ms. Harris’s full plan would add $1.7 trillion to federal deficits over a decade, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog.
To be sure, every campaign makes expensive promises that will never come to pass, especially with a divided Congress. Remember Mr. Biden’s pledge to make community college free? Even adjusted for the pandering standards of campaign economics, however, Ms. Harris’s speech Friday ranks as a disappointment.
Wow.
What's that old saying, When you're a liberal and you've lost The Washington Post, you've already lost?
Well ......................................................................................... is the Democrat Party still liberal though?
Friday, August 16, 2024
Catherine Rampell at WaPo, who is no friend of the right: It’s hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris’s price-gouging proposal is, a bunch of communist, economic gibberish
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. ...
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. We already have plenty of economic gibberish . . ..
-- WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-price-gouging-groceries/
Harris is 0-2.
She picked a terrible VP who is as far to the left as she is.
Now her first policy announcement is a throwback to the 5-year plans of the USSR.
Extremely inauspicious.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Paragraph 12
The number of protesters chanting and bearing banners and signs drawing attention to Israel’s military offensive on Gaza outnumbered the party loyalists at the Harris-Walz rally.
-- Politico.
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