Elections Kamala Harris for POTUS

[Islam Imamate]

"I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground, But I also believe, and it's personal and also very hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators, who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country" - Quemala Harris

insinuate: to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way
Harris insinuated Joe Biden is a racist - SKYNET propaganda FTW


I don't need the associated press or anyone else on this planet to define for me what I can actually see with my own eyes.

Maybe open a dictionary once in a while when you are consuming your propaganda

I don't think she insinuated he's racist because she explicitly says at first that she does not believe he is a racist but you do have a point in that she clearly pulled the race card. Its a kind of progressive browbeating where they admit that your intentions weren't bad but you still have to apologize anyway.

AND all these fucks keep trying to merge with one another lol.

But they haven't yet and no sound economist believes that price gouging or profiteering is responsible for high grocery prices. We experienced inflation due to supply chain issues and high demand due to leaps in consumer spending. We're largely past it but we're stuck in a vibescession where despite most economic indicators showing a very strong economy people continue to complain about high grocery prices. In response to this Harris is giving into populist bellyaching about grocery prices by proposing the most ham-fisted and infamously ineffective economic policy of price fixing basic goods. Its embarrassing.

Scotus can't make him dictator. Aside from a military coup, Congress is the only governmental body that can make him a Dictator, Emperor or Caesar by constitutional ammendment.

SCOTUS can help though, they've already helped lay the groundwork for it by giving POTUS expansive criminal immunity.

 

[SKYNET]

She is saying that she didn't like that Biden worked with past state senators which she believed were racist but part of the job is working with other people in office to solutions even if they have racist tendencies.

you reaching hard here.

insinuate: to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way
Harris insinuated Joe Biden is a racist - SKYNET propaganda FTW

 

[SKYNET]

I don't think she insinuated he's racist

 

[Joe]

The average person probably doesn't mind or might even support the idea but personally I agree with you, its really, really bad. I've said before I'm dead set on voting against Trump for reasons I've explained elsewhere but price controls are one of a few policies a politician can announce that would immediately reduce my confidence in their policy making because of just how bad it is. Usually its rent control which to me is already bad enough but price controls on grocery goods is unironically Venezuela like policy making. Its the quintessential bad socialist economic policy, the kind of example you might find in an Econ 101 textbook.

Its good politics and horrible economics. Normies have lots of lazy anti-corporate thinking that leads them to terrible policy solutions for non-existent problems. I expect nominees for president to be above that kind of thinking.

France has a policy of negotiating grocery prices. Talking about like its going to lead to having nothing and starving is kind silly

 

[nostradumbass]

Vance said trump is basically hitler.

Apparently you're what’s known as a "low information voter" who just repeats any dumb talking point you're given.

Before Trump was even president, and JD Vance was like 2 years out of law school, he wrote in private facebook message "I go back and forth between thinking Trump might just be a cynical asshole like Nixon and wouldn't be that bad(and could even be useful) or that he could be America's Hitler".

Those are 2 mutually exclusive hyperbolic predictions, which means one or both necessarily has to not come true. Given that average household incomes drastically increased, and we got into no new wars, and JD Vance said Trump was a great president after he did the job, which one would you guess was discarded as an assessment rather than a prediction?

 

[filthybliss]

Scotus can't make him dictator. Aside from a military coup, Congress is the only governmental body that can make him a Dictator, Emperor or Caesar by constitutional ammendment.

When they grant him impenetrable immunity, it does open that door for him to further corruption and bend the law in ways that a dictator would.

 

[flektarn]

More than half the country gets their groceries from walmart. Famously getting by walmart.

Unfortunate. But by what metric is Walmart gouging anyone? Their net profit margins are slim. 2-3%. People see "PRICE GO UP" and blame the store. Yes, I live near 10 different stores and they're all in a cabal to raise the price of eggs accordingly so they can rake us over the coals. Or maybe I could rub together my two favorite brain cells and dig deeper and consider supplier costs have risen as well and it just gets passed along. If people want to dig into whether suppliers are choking the markets, ok, that's something to talk about.
This accusation of grocery stores gouging prices is retarded.

 

[Islam Imamate]

France has a policy of negotiating grocery prices. Talking about like its going to lead to having nothing and starving is kind silly

I'm sure there are less bad versions of the idea but its inherently a bad idea and the fact that France does so is both not surprising and not convincing me otherwise.

 

[Islam Imamate]

I'm saying you kind of have a point though. Its not a good look for her to pull the race card like that on him in the primary and then make up and become his VP. I don't care that much either way but I get how it comes off.

 

[nostradumbass]

When they grant him impenetrable immunity, it does open that door for him to further corruption and bend the law in ways that a dictator would.

Lol no it doesn't. The court already slaps down actions that overreach the position, and impeachment is the process to remove them from office. President's already had immunity from prosecution for their job duties, otherwise every single one could just throw the last guy in prison every time the office changes.

 

[Joe]

I'm sure there are less bad versions of the idea but its inherently a bad idea and the fact that France does so is both not surprising and not convincing me otherwise.

I just think its ridiculous to get so worked up over a proposal that wont ever happen and we barely know anything about

 

[filthybliss]

Lol no it doesn't. The court already slaps down actions that overreach the position, and impeachment is the process to remove them from office. President's already had immunity from prosecution for their job duties, otherwise every single one could just throw the last guy in prison every time the office changes.

They already have that as the precendent as you said, we didn't need the SCOTUS to enunciate it, the POTUS can't be held to the exact standards as a civilian, that is a given.

But under the ruling, anything that falls under the umbrella of an "official" act can be excused. He is able to run again despite trying to hound his ex-VP to discredit election results and trying to coupe an election. The range that an "official" act can be stretched is up to elucidation, he could try to cheat election results again and it would be written off as an "official" act.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/01/trump-presidential-immunity-supreme-court/

 

[Islam Imamate]

I just think its ridiculous to get so worked up over a proposal that wont ever happen and we barely know anything about

To be fair it does seem that she didn't specify price controls specifically but the entire idea of going after so called price gouging is bad and needs to be dropped.

 

[Fedor>Cain]

I don't think she insinuated he's racist because she explicitly says at first that she does not believe he is a racist but you do have a point in that she clearly pulled the race card. Its a kind of progressive browbeating where they admit that your intentions weren't bad but you still have to apologize anyway.

But they haven't yet and no sound economist believes that price gouging or profiteering is responsible for high grocery prices. We experienced inflation due to supply chain issues and high demand due to leaps in consumer spending. We're largely past it but we're stuck in a vibescession where despite most economic indicators showing a very strong economy people continue to complain about high grocery prices. In response to this Harris is giving into populist bellyaching about grocery prices by proposing the most ham-fisted and infamously ineffective economic policy of price fixing basic goods. Its embarrassing.

SCOTUS can help though, they've already helped lay the groundwork for it by giving POTUS expansive criminal immunity.

Bro, you can literally just get on YouTube and listen to them brag about price gouging lol.

You are on crack if you think the sole factor in rising food prices were supply chain issues

 

[nostradumbass]

I just think its ridiculous to get so worked up over a proposal that wont ever happen and we barely know anything about

How strong of a sales pitch do you think it is to tell people the person they should vote for didn’t put out any policies for a month, and when she finally does, it's ridiculous and becomes"nah, she's not really going to do it"?

Time to come clean and admit you don't care about policy anyway at this point.

 

[Strychnine]

We can peacefully disagree but I am curious how you believe he would be able to become a dictator and remain in control beyond his 4yr allotment?

Elections - Kamala Harris for POTUS

If you want to see hypocrites, go into my trump speech mega thread and see how the same exact posters get all worked up about a 6 second clip of Trump misspeaking, or even speaking correctly, just out of context. She literally can’t even say price gouging correctly. What is Proud gaging? Is...

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[Limbo Pete]

Absolutely moronic stuff from the Harris campaign, desperately trying to reach for the populist vote but the problem with that is that populists usually want stupid policy like this type of crap.

This is bad enough policy that in a normal election year I would either sit out or consider voting GOP if she really committed to this. Maybe Trump can have a heart attack and we get Mike Pence as the GOP candidate instead, might actually vote for him or at least not against him.

I of course don't like it when the GOP spams the accusation of "socialist" but if there's one policy that does scream failed socialism its price controls. So yeah if you don't want people to think you're a socialist don't take on one of their worst policies.

Some good policy like bringing back the expanded child tax credit but things like price control in regards to grocery prices and rent are absolutely dumb. The most charitable interpretation is that its just red meat for the populist base and she won't actually do it when she gets into office but that in and of itself is an indictment of her as one shouldn't want their preferred candidate making empty promises.

tbh I just like any time I can trot out a Huey Long reference

 

[emefer]

Study Finds Market Power Drove Pandemic Food Inflation​

• Claire Kelloway

On earnings calls last week, major food brands bragged about their ability to keep raising prices. Soda and snack giant PepsiCo told investors that it raised prices 16 percent last quarter, bringing in 18 percent more profit. Nestle announced a 10 percent price hike and Unilever said its food brands cost 13 percent more. In all these cases, higher prices helped food giants increase profits even as their sales decreased.

Food giants keep raising prices even though well-publicized cost pressures, like fuel costs, rising wages and supply chain disruptions, have largely subsided. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journallanded on an explanation for persistent food inflation that many consumer groups and economists (including the Open Markets Institute) provided months ago: corporate greed.

A new study by economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, made publicly available last week, backs this explanation. Authors Isabella Weber and Evan Wasner argue that “the U.S. COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices.” Or as one economist for insurance company Allianz told the Journal, “There is not enough competition in the food sector,” and corporations have been able to raise prices together without fear of losing sales to cost-cutting competitors…

Study finds market power drove pandemic food inflation | Food and Environment Reporting Network

 

[King Joffery]

Trump is going to win New York, calling it now.

 

[herpd807]

Do you think transphobia and conservative media blasting said transphobia on a daily basis could contribute at all to this?

I don't think that affects them much at all.

I think this comes with the inherent confusion and frustration of trying to be something you are not.

Looking in the mirror and still seeing an adam's apple, a receding hairline...large hands. Trying REALLY hard to put on an appearance and yet still getting misgendered because it's not good enough. Add to the fact of all the other regular imperfections some people struggle with naturally, a trans person has to deal with all that and more.

Nevermind the fact that the vast majority of them are on medication that is fucking with their hormones and you have yourself a disaster waiting to happen.

The majority of children suffering gender dysphoria end up growing out of it if you just leave them be to figure it out. As a parent, I would much rather take my chances not encouraging such a shitty life path for my kid by getting them on puberty blockers or the like and just encourage them to learn to come to terms with themselves as they are.

But hey! I'm not a doctor! But I am a parent. And as such it's my choice how I wish to raise my son. Not some activist with a stethoscope and a shitty degree.