Elections Kamala Harris for POTUS

[Islam Imamate]

You expect to take a step in shit and not get your shoes dirty. Don't take my word for it buddy, we're in good hands I suppose lol

Dodge noted.

 

[emefer]

From Jan. 2020 to Jan. 2024, the overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 19.6%. Yet during this period, prices for staple foods increased by much greater rates:

• The cost to feed a family has ballooned: The monthly food cost for a family of four on a “thrifty food plan” increased 50% from $654.10 to $975.90
• Beef: +29.3% for ground beef and +24.2% for ground chuck
• Poultry: +41% for whole chicken
• Milk & Eggs: +21.7% for a gallon of whole milk and +72.6% for a dozen Grade A eggs

More recently, from Jan. 2023 to Jan. 2024, the overall CPI increased 3.1%, yet corporations maintained inflated “sticky” prices across many staples, including:

• Beef: +5% for ground beef and +9.7% for ground chuck
• Poultry: +7.1% for whole chicken

Meanwhile, the past four years have brought significant revenue increases to grocery and agribusiness giants. The top four grocery retailers in the U.S. saw revenue increases between 9-36% over this period. Poultry giants Tysons Foods and Perdue saw revenue increases of 22.5% and 54.9%, respectively. In the past year alone, Perdue revenue increased 37.5%.

Food & Water Watch Research Director Amanda Starbuck issued the following statement:

“Consumers are getting ripped off in the grocery aisle. While families struggle to put food on the table, agribusiness and grocery giants are raking in billions. President Biden’s administration has taken critical steps to increase food and ag sector competition and bring prices down for American families. But this is only the beginning — Biden must move quickly to finalize the open Packers & Stockyards Act rulemaking, and break up food monopolies.”

For more, see Food & Water Watch research into the economic cost of food monopolies in the grocery, hog and dairy industries.

 

[Joe]

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.

Dont states themselves already have these types of laws? I dont think these are the its all over we are communists now that the right is freaking out about. If it even becomes law. If it even is what people saying it will be if it becomes law.

 

[Islam Imamate]

Vance said trump is basically hitler.

I really hate the Hitler comparisons because there's no way to avoid the fact that it comes off as hyperbole. Trump is more like Silvio Berlusconi who would make the US look more like Italy in its inefficiency and corruption with a hint of Hugo Chavez in the way he tries to consolidate power.

Dont states themselves already have these types of laws? I dont think these are the its all over we are communists now that the right is freaking out about. If it even becomes law. If it even is what people saying it will be if it becomes law.

In Florida we do have a price gouging law which regulates price increase during a time of emergency but this comes off as very different, Kamala is alleging price gouging at a national scale by grocery chains for which there is zero evidence. It just looks like she heard complaints about grocery store prices(which are largely exaggerated, we're pretty much past inflation) and has reached for the most obvious yet most counter-productive and ineffectual policy remedy to this non-existent problem.

 

[Joe]

Dodge noted.

Trump said a few days ago. His plan to solve high prices is to drill. That was it.

 

[filthybliss]

independent undecided voter here. Couldn't give three fucks

"I don't care about what politcians say unless they are democrats"

 

[SKYNET]

so cute you think that's going to be her choice

Dodge noted.

Acting flippant and glib isn't appealing

 

[SurferH2O]

It's such a joke anymore. The Left has become an easily manipulated cult.

 

[filthybliss]

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?

The lopsided SCOTUS, I assume is why.

 

[SKYNET]

"I don't care about what politcians say unless they are democrats"

They told you not to ask questions about Kamala when she mocked Biden relentlessly over his age, for being a racist and a sexist, remember?

But this is different when you are ignorant, docile and obedient

 

[flektarn]

In Florida we do have a price gouging law which regulates price increase during a time of emergency but this comes off as very different, Kamala is alleging price gouging at a national scale by grocery chains for which there is zero evidence. It just looks like she heard complaints about grocery store prices(which are largely exaggerated, we're pretty much past inflation) and has reached for the most obvious yet most counter-productive and ineffectual policy remedy to this non-existent problem.

Grocery stores...famously known for having margins of 1.6% on average. Gouging.
She's really inept at this.

 

[filthybliss]

They told you not to ask questions about Kamala when she mocked Biden relentlessly over his age, for being a racist and a sexist, remember?

But this is different when you are ignorant, docile and obedient

yawn

Kamala Harris did not call Joe Biden a racist on the debate stage

False. Harris criticized Biden on certain topics related to race during a debate in June 2019, but she prefaced those remarks with “I do not believe you are a racist.”

apnews.com

 

[Joe]

I really hate the Hitler comparisons because there's no way to avoid the fact that it comes off as hyperbole. Trump is more like Silvio Berlusconi who would make the US look more like Italy in its inefficiency and corruption with a hint of Hugo Chavez in the way he tries to consolidate power.

In Florida we do have a price gouging law which regulates price increase during a time of emergency but this comes off as very different, Kamala is alleging price gouging at a national scale by grocery chains for which there is zero evidence. It just looks like she heard complaints about grocery store prices(which are largely exaggerated, we're pretty much past inflation) and has reached for the most obvious yet most counter-productive and ineffectual policy remedy to this non-existent problem.

Lots of people are convinced we are being gouged. Especially when companies announced that they were cutting prices last year out of nowhere. You cant convince the average person oil companies dont gouge. So its not the worst politics

 

[Fedor>Cain]

four companies (or less) controlled at least 50% of the market for 79% of our standard groceries. For almost a third of shopping items, the top firms controlled at least 75% of the market share.

3 companies account for 92% of sodas sold.
3 companies own 73% of purchased cereals.
80% of beef and 70% of pork found in all grocery stores is owned by 4 multinational corporations.

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

 

[SKYNET]

yawn

Kamala Harris did not call Joe Biden a racist on the debate stage

False. Harris criticized Biden on certain topics related to race during a debate in June 2019, but she prefaced those remarks with “I do not believe you are a racist.”

apnews.com

"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

 

[Islam Imamate]

Grocery stores...famously known for having margins of 1.6% on average. Gouging.
She's really inept at this.

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.

Lots of people are convinced we are being gouged. Especially when companies announced that they were cutting prices last out of nowhere. You cant convince the average person oil companies dont gouge. So its not the worst politics

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.

 

[Teppodama]

The lopsided SCOTUS, I assume is why.

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.

 

[Joe]

Grocery stores...famously known for having margins of 1.6% on average. Gouging.
She's really inept at this.

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

 

[skysolo]

I like a politician who won't say what they stand for unless they win.

You can't break a campaign promise if you don't have any.

She has my vote for sure.

 

[filthybliss]

"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

Lmao, you reaching hard here. 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. If you want, we can get into the weeds and wires of the bussing policies.

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

Argh, yeah it seems like you know everything. You don't need to read and literally nothing can change your mind because anything that contradicts your views is "propaganda''.