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Nothing Good From President Harris

By Maria K. Fotopoulos

Nothing good would come from a Kamala Harris presidency, but endless bad things would come from one. It was reported the week before last that Harris’ campaign website had no economic plan on it. But everyone is supposed to cut Harris some slack, right? She was only just crowned after no real Democratic process.

Harris then said a plan was coming the next week, with a focus on the economy, as was a press conference at some point before the end of August — she needs the time to learn new words, as a talking head noted.

But as of August 18, still no plans — of any kind — on kamalaharris.com, but the requests for money were front and center on the website, along with the false claim that this is the team to “save democracy.” But why bother talking about pesky plans? As one Democrat operative said, “Why would we start talking about policy? We’re actually better off just running on this real wave of enthusiasm and energy.”

Harris did, however, start talking about old ideas that have failed on multiple occasions in her first policy-focused speech of her ever-so-brief campaign for the presidency last Friday. While most people would understand that socialist ideas which have been tried and failed are ideas never to be trotted out again, Kamala and today’s Democrats don’t. There is a School of non-Thought among the Democrat party today that socialist ideas will be different when they implement them.

A brief segue here … Every time I say or write “Democrat party,” I cringe. Today’s iteration of the Democrat party is so far removed from anything remotely connected to democracy. Thus, it’s truly Orwellian to refer to it as the Democrat party. So henceforth, I shall refer to it as the American Progressive Socialist Party (APSP), formerly known as the Democrat Party.

Le Economic Plan

On Friday in North Carolina, Harris’ “big economic idea” included a federal ban on “corporate price gouging” on groceries. “We will help the food industry become more competitive,” Harris said as she proposed price controls. Her research team should have told her that grocers operate on some of the thinnest margins of any industry. They should also have told her that most Americans today don’t believe the government can do anything efficiently. “Ms. Harris, we think you may lose credibility if you tell Americans that you will tell the food industry how to be more competitive. In fact, your proposal is likely to be compared to failed countries, such as Venezuela.”

The history of price controls is a history of failure, including Nixon’s. As revisited in a 2011 commentary in the Cato Institute, writer Gene Healy refers to the prediction of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, noting:

“Nixon’s gambit ended ‘in utter failure and the emergence into the open of the suppressed inflation.’ The people would pay the price — but not until after he’d coasted to a landslide re-election in 1972 over Democratic Sen. George McGovern.

“By the time Nixon reimposed a temporary freeze in June 1973, Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw explain in The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, it was obvious that price controls didn’t work: ‘Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to the market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets.’”

When articulating her economic plan, such that it was, at least Harris did not resurrect her use of the term, “The Plan,” with a French accent, when she tried to explain it. See Harris’ brilliant elocution on a trip to France in 2021 here, where she said, “In government, we campaign with ‘The Plan.’ Uppercase T, uppercase P — The Plan!”

Not surprisingly, her economic plan involves spending a lot of money — $40 billion assisting local government in seeking solutions to housing scarcity and $25,000 per person to provide down-payment assistance for homebuyers. Not inexpensive programs. How will she pay for them?

Kamala’s answer was one of her usual word salads, a non-answer that ended with the statement that the programs would pay for themselves in some nebulous way. The best summary of how her spending would be paid for may have come from Insurrection Barbie in this short clip here, which involves leprechauns.

And the best summary of Kamala’s understanding of economics may be this reader comment in response to the RealClear Politics article, “Kamala Harris Outlines ‘Opportunity Economy’ Agenda: ‘More than 100 Million Americans will get a Tax Cut.” DNC Political Prisoner writes:

“… Harris is an economic illiterate that doesn’t even have a grasp of high school freshman economics. Like all Communists before her, she draws her economic policy from the emotions of the Communist manifesto instead of the laws of economics.”

Harris, part of the Biden-Harris crime syndicate, now in its fourth year of operations, has made the point publicly that she was the last person in the room with Biden when big decisions were being made. Together, they printed a lot of money, which is inflationary.

Some insight into inflation from X posts:

“With nearly four years under Biden-Harris ‘rule,’ inflation reached a peak of 9.6 percent in June 2022. Looking at specific categories after one year under Biden-Harris, there were shocking jumps. In December 2021, bacon was up 20 percent; beef, 24 percent; eggs, 12 percent; gasoline, 51 percent and natural gas, 28 percent.

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“The rise in prices (inflation) is caused by government overspending, which increases the amount of money faster than the increase in goods & services output. That is the vast majority of the problem. Inflation was particularly bad during the Covid years, as there was massive government spending, despite productivity plunging, as people were forced to stay home. This is further exacerbated by excess regulation, which prevents the market from solving an unmet need (e.g., housing in high-demand areas). Occasionally, there is monopolistic behavior by companies, but this is relatively rare and usually only possible if those companies have gained control of their industry regulator. Again, a government, not private sector, problem.”

Then this, which is a tweet of Elon Musk from 16 Aug. 2024

“Inflation is caused by the federal government spending more than it earns, because they just print more money to make up the difference. To solve inflation, reduce wasteful government spending. Your tax dollars should be spent well, not poorly.”

Now we’re hearing “good news” on inflation supposedly dropping, but that doesn’t seem to be matching people’s realties.

Here’s one more on inflation and Kamala’s response:

An opinion piece by E.J. Antoni on FOX, “Kamala Harris’ economically illiterate agenda will just tank Americans’ finances even more,” opened with this zinger:

“If you’d been robbed by a person, you’d be insane to have that same individual investigate the crime. That’s essentially the situation with Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to reduce the very inflation she helped cause. Like a burglar who won’t admit to the robbery, Harris is casting blame elsewhere and proposing an economically illiterate agenda that would only worsen Americans’ finances.”

Harris: The Thief

At a campaign rally in June in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump promised “no taxes on tips,” a bold idea. Reportedly this would impact 6 million workers.

Continuing the robbery theme of the Biden-Harris regime, Harris in early August announced her no taxes on tips plan — a direct theft of Trump’s idea. Harris does not even have the political grace to give Trump credit. She could have said, “There is one thing I agree with Trump on.”

Harris is the mid-level manager who steals the fantastic idea from an “underling,” promotes it as her own to upper management, gets the promotion and has the lower-level employee fired.

There’s no way around the obvious reality of who Harris has shown herself to be through the years. She is a dolt. The three-month campaign is a con job — a faux campaign — with an anointed empty vessel, ready to be filled with whatever her puppet masters pour in to her to meet their agendas. Her flip-flopping on so many issues (fracking, policing, etc.) indicates she believes in nothing, but will say whatever seems the political flavor of the day. If there’s anything authentic about her, it doesn’t come across to the public.

Senator Harris

As a U.S. senator, Sen. Harris was a one-trick pony. Her “prosecutorial” background had given her one skill: grilling people to well-done. Often with bogus lines of inquiry. Often with a high level of disrespect. Often with her demanding, “Yes” or “No.” A few examples are here, here, here, here, here and here.

And we learned she can’t conjugate verbs properly. “The truth and the fact is …” And we got a taste of one of her favorite lines, “I’m speaking.” Here with Mike Pence.

AG Harris

As attorney general for the State of California, Harris’ bad policies and inability to think through implications have had real and painful implications for real people, a result she neither seems to care about nor own. A particularly horrifying law she advocated was penalizing parents for children’s school truancy. Newsweek detailed the horrors of Harris’ overreach of using the law enacted in 2011 to punish parents.

Harris also served as AG when Prop. 47 was introduced, which helped launch a crime wave in California by classifying theft of items priced below $950 as a misdemeanor, including for multiple offenses. As well, previous offenses categorized as felonies were reduced to misdemeanors. This included numerous drug possession offenses.

An informative piece on Substack by Sasha Stone, “Adopting Positions from Her Rivals is a Signature Move for Kamala Harris,” which provides tremendous insight into Harris’ career, also included a good discussion with Steve Cooley, the L.A. County DA from 2002 to 2012, who ran against Harris for the California AG position. Despite overwhelming endorsements from law enforcement and media, Cooley lost in a close race, 46.1 percent to 45.3 percent. We might have had an entirely different political landscape today if Cooley had won. That may have been Harris’ second big break, with the first one being her “special relationship” with one of the Democrat’s former powerhouses, Willie Brown, a relationship which resulted in several well-paying positions which launched her career.

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The list of Kamala’s failings is much longer (would easily be a 25,000-word article), but any one of the above failings should be enough to never put this person back into any elected office. But perhaps the most obvious disqualifier for sending Harris to the White House is four years of lies. There’s really only one role for the VP of the United States and that is to step in for the president if needed. While most of us saw that Joe Biden was mentally and physically incapacitated, Harris assured us for nearly four years that he was fit as a fiddle, rather than doing her duty to invoke the 25th amendment to remove Biden from office.

Had that been done in a timely manner — most certainly after the Afghanistan debacle — there would have been more than adequate time to conduct a legitimate Democrat primary versus the coup the country just experienced.

In a normal world, one where people weren’t suffering from full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome, a world where people voted in their best interests and used critical thinking, the Harris-Walz duo, along with other Democrats running for office, would be blown out of the water as criminal operatives of a criminal organization. Those with the ability to think and work through problems will not vote for the Harris-Walz pair. But there remain those who have financial interests in continuing to vote APSP — teachers’ unions, the APSP ruling elite, minions the APSP convinces and general hangers-on, toadies and sycophants — and will vote for Hollow Woman and Tampon Tim, no matter how poor their political career histories are.

Yes, in a functioning world, the 2024 election would be Mondale-Ferraro redux, the election where Reagan-Bush had 525 electoral votes to Mondale-Ferraro’s 13, with the popular vote, 54,455,472 to 37,577,352, or 58.8 percent vs. 40.6 percent. (Interesting the year was 1984, but our 1984 closer to Orwell’s arrived in 2020.)

Americans hopefully will pull back their veils and see what lies have rolled out at this week’s Democrat National Convention. After a few weeks of Kamala 24/7 — the more you learn about her, the more you dislike her — I am more than done with her and have not watched this week’s farce & folly show. Hopefully the majority of voters will just say #NeverKamala, with the Harris-Walz pairing going the way of Clinton-Kaine — two politicos and two Timmys to be forgotten as soon as possible.

Maria Fotopoulos writes about the connection between overpopulation and biodiversity loss, and from time to time other topics that confound her. On FB @BetheChangeforAnimals and givesendgo.com/calliescathouse.