Because Kamala

[Ivanhoe]

lol

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-sheriff-featured-kamala-harris-campaign-ad-decries-use-image-i-do-not-support-her

 

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A California sheriff was less than pleased to find out he was featured in a new political ad for Kamala Harris in which she touts border security, which he says distorts the record.

"In light of a recent political ad put out by Kamala Harris featuring Sheriff Boudreaux, as well as other local law enforcement, the Sheriff wants to make it abundantly clear that his image is being used without his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or any other political office," Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said in a statement issued to Fox News Digital.

 

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"As a matter of fact, I would like to point out the misleading information projected in that same political ad. In the ad, Harris claims to have spent decades fighting violent crime as a ‘border state prosecutor.’ The facts are that ‘then California Attorney General Kamala’ came to the Valley in 2014 touting a years-long investigation into a multi-national drug operation, with ties to Mexican drug cartels and prison gangs," Boudreaux said. 

Boudreaux said in that particular case, 11 people were arrested, including suspected "kingpin" Jose Magana of Dinuba.

 

Tulare County encloses parts of Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. The cartels are running marijuana grow ops on public lands throughout California, thus ironically Sheriff Boudreaux is literally on the front lines of the cartel issue. If anyone knows the measure of Kamala's record as California AG, it would be him.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/harris-campaign-google-poltical-ads-news-publishers

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The Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publishers are on her side, Axios has found.

Why it matters: It's a common practice in the commercial advertising world that doesn't violate Google's policies, but the ads mimic real news results from Search closely enough that they have news outlets caught off guard.

• According to Google's ad transparency center, the Trump campaign isn't running these types of ads, but this technique has been used by campaigns before.
• The ads say that they are sponsored, but it's not immediately clear that the text that accompanies real news links is written by the campaigns and not by the media publication itself.

 

 

 

[NickM]

11 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

lol

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-sheriff-featured-kamala-harris-campaign-ad-decries-use-image-i-do-not-support-her

 

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Tulare County encloses parts of Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. The cartels are running marijuana grow ops on public lands throughout California, thus ironically Sheriff Boudreaux is literally on the front lines of the cartel issue. If anyone knows the measure of Kamala's record as California AG, it would be him.

 

Whenever I see Tulare County, I'm reminded of  faux wrestling match where one of the contestants was announced as "the Fairey from Tulare"

[sunday]

Spirit animal

Proof that cackling is a natural phenomenon.

Edited August 19 by sunday

[JWB]

 

[Ivanhoe]

10 hours ago, NickM said:

Whenever I see Tulare County, I'm reminded of  faux wrestling match where one of the contestants was announced as "the Fairey from Tulare"

Don't be too hard on them, their only nearby city is Fresno.

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/08/14/peter-schweizer-democrat-vp-pick-tim-walz-tied-chinese-secret-police-stations-kidnap-ccp-critics/
 

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The New York Times bestselling author claimed that Walz, who was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate on August 6, is connected to CCP operatives who conduct illegal police activity in the U.S.

While speaking on several of the Minnesota governor’s unsavory links to the Chinese government, Schweizer mentioned the “secret police stations that the Chinese have here in the United States,” which are unofficial but “so-called united front groups that exist in the West.”

Schweizer, who also serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute, said these stations “cooperate with Chinese intelligence” in order to “intimidate Chinese that are living in the United States that don’t like the CCP or [are] critical of the CCP.”

 

 

[futon]

On 7/22/2024 at 6:50 PM, futon said:

It's too early to call it. There's still time for mishaps, reversals, and upsets.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/news-services/ap/20240813-204721/

[DKTanker]

Anybody else looking forward to Harris' price controls?

[Josh]

21 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

Anybody else looking forward to Harris' price controls?

Probably a lot of the US, but I cannot imagine there is any legal mechanism for doing so, at least not without Congress. Just seems like a campaign stunt to me, much like Trump’s deportation pitch. Only if Congress would fund it.

[DKTanker]

22 minutes ago, Josh said:

Probably a lot of the US, but I cannot imagine there is any legal mechanism for doing so, at least not without Congress. Just seems like a campaign stunt to me, much like Trump’s deportation pitch. Only if Congress would fund it.

Nixon did it my fiat order.

A few thoughts. Nixon instituted price controls, by executive fiat, in 1970 to combat inflation. Sound familiar? It was an unmitigated disaster. Sure, prices weren't going up but that didn't change reality. When you suppress the ability of a company to make money they'll soon stop producing a money losing proposition. That in turn will force 1. A black market to evolve and 2. At some point the price controls will have to be relaxed and ZOOM, prices will skyrocket to match pent up demand.

Second thought, if price controls are such a good idea for 2025, why aren't they a good idea now, and why isn't Kamala pressing Biden to issue his own dictat right now? Are we to suffer at least five more months waiting for Harris to dictate the economy? That is, if she happens to win?

Edit to add:  No charge for the small lesson in economics.

Edited August 16 by DKTanker

[LT Ducky]

I recall Nixon’s wage and price controls but I can’t remember how they affected my life…I was 28 years old, married, 2 kids and just moved into a new house. It couldn’t have been too bad  - I survived.

[DKTanker]

1 minute ago, LT Ducky said:

I recall Nixon’s wage and price controls but I can’t remember how they affected my life…I was 28 years old, married, 2 kids and just moved into a new house. It couldn’t have been too bad  - I survived.

They helped usher in stagflation and the malaise economy a few years later. 

[Ivanhoe]

+5 (+1 with Carter-era inflation)

The path to the Carter-era "Misery Index" started, IMHO, in the mid 1960s war bills started piling up. Then Nixon threw the future away at Bretton Woods.

People like to blame the oil crisis but unlinking the dollar from gold was the killshot.

Then, of course, there was the 1971 Smithsonian Agreement. Nixon channeled King Canute and declared fixed exchange rates between fiats, regardless of real-world economics.

Every time national governments stray from the Path Of Righteousness (i.e. the Gospel of Saint Friedrich), people suffer.

 

 

[NickM]

23 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Don't be too hard on them, their only nearby city is Fresno.

"Hey, Beavis he said 'hard on'..eheheheheheheh..."

[Burncycle360]

Harris isn't a communist, she's a tool. She is there because she can be controlled by the establishment (unelected aristocracy of the party) but the party is a corporatist oligarchy that relies upon their funding and has an incestuous relationship with them for influence. Don't expect such measures to actually be put into place, the goal is to make you think they care about you and they, as your benevolent benefactors, are trying but those rascally greedy corporate elites (wink) are thwarting their attempts to help. 

The rhetoric is all dog whistling buzzwords along the same words like equity and DEI to rally populist fervor.  But well intended rank and file aside, the party never actually cared about poor people, minorities or the "marginalized" beyond the extent that most people's sentiment is easily manipulated by demagogues and their carefully framed sophistry, so they serve as a reliable pool of voters. After all, if they ever actually escaped their circumstances, they might start voting conservatively.  While social safety nets are important, without commensurate opportunity and socioeconomic mobility the result is dependency, and that is the goal of the party: a welfare state, in which the population is utterly dependent upon the Government, and with no alternative there can be no challenging it (either the need or criticisms where improvements are needed) without it being painted as an attack on the concept of it, with subsequent accusations of wanting people to suffer. Look at social security, and the UK's NHS. It would be political suicide to suggest otherwise. Therefore the party that gives lip service to caring about you can maintain control in perpetuity. 

 

This is an emergent adaptation of a ruling class that has to pay lip service to the idea that you get a say, but make no mistake, you disgust them.  They are interested in power, money and influence, not your lot in life. They begrudgingly have to put on a show. If they could take and keep their station without needing a vote they would in a heartbeat and you'd take your rightful place as serfs.

That being said they are painting themselves into a corner, pretending to hate big business to get votes while the economy really is going to shit thanks to decades of gross fiscal mismanagement (by both parties) and unsustainable entitlements. In the end they will always choose to save themselves, and as far as price controls go, Democrats KNOW it will result in food shortages, but that's a feature not a bug. They can't take the rap for the economic situation being the consequences of their own actions. Therefore, any shortages will only play into a narrative they're crafting where "those (nebulous) rich people over that way are the cause of all your problems, we're trying to help" and when it exacerbates the situation they can lean into it.

Modern day kulaks.

Everything will be to blame, from the successful, MAGA, the Russians, capitalism itself, anything to avoid self reflection and the better part of a century of inflating and debasing the currency, the culmination of decades of making myopic short term decisions for votes at the expense of the future. A reckoning is finally on the horizon.

Once the population who doesn't understand economics is fighting among themselves, they will lean hard into MMT concepts and push a central bank digital currency to avoid that reckoning because they know if they can directly manipulate the monetary supply in every citizens bank account with no alternative (cash) they can fudge the numbers in perpetuity. The economy is doing precisely as well as they say it's doing, prove it otherwise, pleb.

 

 

 

Edited August 16 by Burncycle360

[sunday]

4 hours ago, Burncycle360 said:

Harris isn't a communist, she's a tool. She is there because she can be controlled by the establishment (unelected aristocracy of the party) but the party is a corporatist oligarchy that relies upon their funding and has an incestuous relationship with them for influence. Don't expect such measures to actually be put into place, the goal is to make you think they care about you and they, as your benevolent benefactors, are trying but those rascally greedy corporate elites (wink) are thwarting their attempts to help. 

The rhetoric is all dog whistling buzzwords along the same words like equity and DEI to rally populist fervor.  But well intended rank and file aside, the party never actually cared about poor people, minorities or the "marginalized" beyond the extent that most people's sentiment is easily manipulated by demagogues and their carefully framed sophistry, so they serve as a reliable pool of voters. After all, if they ever actually escaped their circumstances, they might start voting conservatively.  While social safety nets are important, without commensurate opportunity and socioeconomic mobility the result is dependency, and that is the goal of the party: a welfare state, in which the population is utterly dependent upon the Government, and with no alternative there can be no challenging it (either the need or criticisms where improvements are needed) without it being painted as an attack on the concept of it, with subsequent accusations of wanting people to suffer. Look at social security, and the UK's NHS. It would be political suicide to suggest otherwise. Therefore the party that gives lip service to caring about you can maintain control in perpetuity. 

 

This is an emergent adaptation of a ruling class that has to pay lip service to the idea that you get a say, but make no mistake, you disgust them.  They are interested in power, money and influence, not your lot in life. They begrudgingly have to put on a show. If they could take and keep their station without needing a vote they would in a heartbeat and you'd take your rightful place as serfs.

That being said they are painting themselves into a corner, pretending to hate big business to get votes while the economy really is going to shit thanks to decades of gross fiscal mismanagement (by both parties) and unsustainable entitlements. In the end they will always choose to save themselves, and as far as price controls go, Democrats KNOW it will result in food shortages, but that's a feature not a bug. They can't take the rap for the economic situation being the consequences of their own actions. Therefore, any shortages will only play into a narrative they're crafting where "those (nebulous) rich people over that way are the cause of all your problems, we're trying to help" and when it exacerbates the situation they can lean into it.

Modern day kulaks.

Everything will be to blame, from the successful, MAGA, the Russians, capitalism itself, anything to avoid self reflection and the better part of a century of inflating and debasing the currency, the culmination of decades of making myopic short term decisions for votes at the expense of the future. A reckoning is finally on the horizon.

Once the population who doesn't understand economics is fighting among themselves, they will lean hard into MMT concepts and push a central bank digital currency to avoid that reckoning because they know if they can directly manipulate the monetary supply in every citizens bank account with no alternative (cash) they can fudge the numbers in perpetuity. The economy is doing precisely as well as they say it's doing, prove it otherwise, pleb.

A path to serfdom, digital age edition, yes.

[DB]

On 8/14/2024 at 2:41 PM, Ivanhoe said:

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/harris-campaign-google-poltical-ads-news-publishers

 

 

I think Google is wrong about this - when I see "Sponsored by xxx", I'm going to assume that means they've paid to place the quote from the original source, not that they've made that shit up out of whole cloth.

Anyway, it's good to have a good example where that side is blatantly lying.

[Mr King]

Tim Waltz's wife said she could smell the burning tires from the antifa/blm riots, and kept her windows open as long as she could because it was a "touchstone" of what was happening.

These people are psychopaths

 

 

[Murph]

The sad sad truth:

 

 

[bfng3569]

 

this one is just to funny....

 

Edited August 18 by bfng3569

[Mr King]

3 hours ago, bfng3569 said:

 

 

 

That's hilarious

[Mr King]

Harris campaign trotting out the "Whyt pipo don't season dey food" meme

 

 

 

[Stargrunt6]

2 hours ago, Mr King said:

Harris campaign trotting out the "Whyt pipo don't season dey food" meme

 

 

 

*Cajuns have entered the chat*

[Ivanhoe]

12 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

*Cajuns have entered the chat*

Texans; "Move over, kemosabe."