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That, right there, disqualifies him, imo.  

It should except the MSM activists and the Democrats are doing everything to re-brand Walz as some sort of everyman.  That may work with many low-info voters.

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Retired Minnesota Cop Makes Shocking Charge Against Tim Walz

 

[...] Fox News reported Thursday that retired Minnesota State Patrol Lt. John Nagel knows the real Tim Walz behind the propaganda smoke and mirrors: "He is not a moderate, he has never been a moderate and here in Minnesota he has been anti-police, he has raised taxes, he is nowhere near being a moderate."

 

Even worse, "he’s anti-police, defund the police, when you have police families, and we have an officer killed in the line of duty, when that family looks at the governor and says we don't want you at the funeral.  That should tell you a great deal of how law enforcement in general feels about Walz."  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/08/16/retired-minnesota-cop-makes-shocking-charge-against-tim-walz-n4931705

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The Weird, Creepy, Surreal -- And Dangerous -- 2024 Campaign

 

The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.


Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we've entered this bizarro world:  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/victor-davis-hanson/2024/08/16/the-weird-creepy-surreal-and-dangerous-2024-campaign-n4931690

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Kommie Harris, indeed.

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Kamala Harris can't even fathom basic economics

 

Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to solve the crisis she helped cause: inflation.


Under former President Trump, the inflation rate averaged 1.9%.  It skyrocketed to 9.1% in 18 months under Joe Biden and Harris, fueled by a $5 trillion spending binge paid for by debt and printing money.


The centerpiece of the Harris plan is the imposition of federal price controls on "greedy corporations" she says are "price gouging" consumers.  Landlords would be prohibited from raising rents more than 5% a year.


Even the Washington Post has trashed the plan, advising Kamala that "when your opponent calls you a 'communist,' maybe don’t propose price controls."  [...]

 

https://nypost.com/2024/08/16/opinion/kamala-harris-cant-even-fathom-basic-economics/

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'Gimmicks' and Price 'Gauging':  WaPo Editorial Board Blasts Kamanomics

 

Of course Kamanomics is an incoherent mess.  Kamala Harris simply did a Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V on Bidenomics, which consists of nothing butincoherence and gimmicks.  All Joe Biden and now Harris have in their repertoire to deal with the inflation they created through gimmicks are even more demand-side gimmicks, free cash rather than the bread and circuses of old.

 

Anyone with a few working brain cells can figure that out.  That's what makes yesterday's blast from the Washington Post's editorial board so surprising:  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/17/gimmicks-and-giggles-wapo-editorial-board-blasts-kamanomics-n3793283

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Biden's Former Chief of Staff Admits Kamala Harris Vice Presidency Was a Failure

 

It's not until you're somewhat deep into yet another mainstream media puff piece of Kamala Harris that you come across a rather startling admission by Joe Biden's former chief of staff, Ron Klain.  He basically admits that the Democrats’ nominee for president failed in her VP gig.

 

The New York Times headline Sunday certainly might make you think that Harris had mastered the intricacies of the job:  "A Vice Presidential Learning Curve: How Kamala Harris Picked Her Shots," it reads.  But after first describing how Harris was "deliberate and disciplined" despite the many pitfalls she faced as the first female vice president, the Times finally got to the point  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/08/18/bidens-former-chief-of-staff-admits-kamala-harris-vice-presidency-was-a-failure-n2178255

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WATCH:  Struggling Grocery Store Owners Rake Kamala Harris Over the Coals for 'Price Gouging' Proposal

 

[...] A new video is circulating on X featuring two small business owners discussing how rampant inflation has affected their businesses and customers.  To put it succinctly, it ain't looking good, folks.

 

Ehsan Khan, who owns a grocery store in Brooklyn, New York, said that during his 24 years in the business, he "never saw the cost of grocery bread, butter, cookies, milk going up" as it has under the Biden/Harris administration.


Carlos Collado from Fine Festival Market described how his store has to reduce inventory because of inflation.  "See those shelves right there?  We're trying to keep less inventory because it's expensive after the inflation under your vice presidency," he said.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/08/18/watch-struggling-grocery-store-owners-rake-kamala-harris-over-the-coals-for-price-gouging-ban-proposal-n2178248

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Don Lemon Gets Trumped Hardcore Interviewing Voters in Atlantic City!

 

Disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon is still desperately trying to remain relevant after being fired from the cable news network and his deal with Elon Musk to have a show on X falling through.At the moment, he's trying his own man-on-the-street-style interviews, and his recent effort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, did not go as he had planned.


Many of the people he spoke with expressed support for Trump, citing his experience and economic record, and even those who said they'd support Kamala Harris told Lemon they think Trump is going to win.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/08/18/this-might-be-the-most-hilarious-video-of-the-2024-campaign-yet-n4931746

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On 8/18/2024 at 12:11 AM, TBoneTX said:

'Gimmicks' and Price 'Gauging':  WaPo Editorial Board Blasts Kamanomics

 

Of course Kamanomics is an incoherent mess.  Kamala Harris simply did a Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V on Bidenomics, which consists of nothing butincoherence and gimmicks.  All Joe Biden and now Harris have in their repertoire to deal with the inflation they created through gimmicks are even more demand-side gimmicks, free cash rather than the bread and circuses of old.

 

Anyone with a few working brain cells can figure that out.  That's what makes yesterday's blast from the Washington Post's editorial board so surprising:  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/08/17/gimmicks-and-giggles-wapo-editorial-board-blasts-kamanomics-n3793283


Price fixing and price control, Commie Kamala style". Robert Sterling, CFO of Alfa Lion, breaks down the Harris plan for price controls on food:
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People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.  I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:  


1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.  


2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.  


3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.  


4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.  


5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.  


6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.  


7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.  


8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.  


9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.  


10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.  


11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.  


12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.  


13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.  


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33 minutes ago, Pooky said:


Price fixing and price control, Commie Kamala style". Robert Sterling, CFO of Alfa Lion, breaks down the Harris plan for price controls on food:
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People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America.  I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen:  


1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices.  


2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t allowed to raise prices.  


3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed… yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.  


4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production capacity.  


5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.  


6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things like payment terms.  


7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance sheets to offer superior payment terms.  


8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.  


9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed escorts to delivery trucks.  


10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also seizes closed-down production facilities.  


11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn, wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers” from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.  


12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts imploding.  


13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.  


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yeah, all we need is "a bit more government control" to fix things..........

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The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign

 

Projection is a Freudian psychological term.  It describes a particular defensive mechanism, when people, often unconsciously, attribute their own (usually undesirable) behaviors to others who do not have them.


These mental gymnastics are intended to alleviate one's own guilt or sense of inadequacy at the expense of another.


Sound familiar?


But in the political sphere, projection involves more overt dissimulation.  It is increasingly common for leftist candidates or political parties to falsely accuse their opponents of the very destructive behaviors and unpopular agendas that they themselves embrace, but out of political necessity must deny.


Rather than an unconscious Freudian defense mechanism, political projection is usually a conscious strategy of hiding one's own negatives by fobbing them off on antagonists.


Projection often proves a quite successful ploy.


After all, the political projectionist knows best his own hazardous or off-putting conduct and policies.  And so, he can most skillfully attribute just these liabilities to those who have had no experience with them.

 

The 2024 Harris-Walz campaign is turning out to be projectionist to the core.  How?  [...]

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/19/the-myriad-projections-of-the-2024-campaign/

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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84% of America thinks the US is headed in the wrong direction. Now, the most unpopular VP in US history is suddenly a superstar? I'm not buying it. This is another MSM ploy...

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I am fascinated by the Media reaction, it looks like they all went on the same trading programme.

 

I have very little faith in politicians, well none, and I feel like I should be surprised by the race to the bottom.

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